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Updated: June 2, 2025
He waited until sunset thinking there would be less probability of meeting anyone in the churchyard after that hour than earlier and set out, taking with him a cluster of white roses from the summer-house in the garden. It was nearly dusk when he reached the church and climbed the steps that led to the walled graveyard, elevated above the street-level. Never had the spot looked so fair to him.
On all the street-level verandas, the entrances to the shops and the restaurants, the hundreds of natives who had not wanted other lodging slept as children in cradles until they should rise for coffee before the market-bell.
Of the Porta Aurea itself, which had a central gate for chariots and two side gates for pedestrians, little remains. Beneath the arch of the Sergii the ancient pavement has been uncovered, bearing wheelmarks made many centuries ago, and the lower courses of the gateway adjacent, but all the part above the present street-level has disappeared.
Haeckel's laboratory itself is a simple oblong building of yellowish brick, standing on a jutting point of land high above the street-level. Entering it, your eye is first caught by a set of simple panels in the wall opposite the door bearing six illustrious names: Aristotle, Linne, Lamarck, Cuvier, Müller, Darwin a Greek, a Swede, two Frenchmen, a German, and an Englishman.
The door of the post office was next charged at by three of the strongest of the Volunteers, but being ajar, was consequently entered in the most undignified way by the invaders, who fell head-over-heels into the place, which was a couple of feet below the street-level luckily for themselves, their rifles not going off.
Henceforth that one would know no more rest while Lanyard lived. Thus that little street-level apartment forfeited whatever attractions it originally had possessed in the adventurer's estimation.
Then it swung sharply to the right, meandered into a street-level way leading into the heart of a monster building, and stopped. And in all its travel it had not passed fifty people. The pilot-turned-chauffeur turned and grinned amiably, and led the way again. Steps twenty or thirty of them. Then they emerged suddenly into a vast room.
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