Edgar Allan Poe Quote

"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


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.