secrets

None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old. There were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them old and stained. I tried it, for, since I could not find the key of the room or the key of the outer door, which was the main ...

But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity. When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and af...