"The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed."


Translated by Jessie Haynes, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado (p. 81), Walter Scott. 1889

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

The nitre! I said; see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed.

The nitre! I said; see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed.

The nitre! I said; see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed.

The nitre! I said; see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed.