Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Mysteries of Paris, Vol. 1
On the night in question, the wind howled fiercely in the dark and dirty gulleys of the Cité the blinking and uncertain light of the lamps which swung to and fro in the sudden gusts were dimly re?ected in pools of black slush, which ?owed abundantly in the midst of the filthy pavement.
The murky-coloured houses, which were lighted within by a few panes of glass in the worm-eaten casements, overhung each other so closely, that the eaves of each almost touched its opposite neighbour, so narrow were the streets. Dark and noisome alleys led to staircases still more black and foul, and so perpendicular, that they could hardly be' ascended by the help of a cord fixed to the dank and humid walls by holdfasts of iron.
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