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Updated: June 12, 2025
Heidelberg Castle has the reputation of being one of the most imposing and interesting ruins in Europe. The grounds are quite extensive, and full of curious objects. The students wandered through the halls and subterranean vaults till they came to the famous tun, which is thirty-six feet long, and twenty-four feet high, having a capacity of eight hundred hogsheads.
Fearful prison-house to which there is no key but the death-groan of a well-guarded tyrant. How fearfully the darkness creeps from yonder vaults! My lamp, too, is flickering in its socket. Oh, come, come, my beloved, 'tis horrible to die here. He has broken his oath. He has forgotten his Bertha. The living think not of the dead, and this vault is my tomb. Hope no more, wretched one.
In the Middle Age, the prison was below the vaults of the Roman Tabularium on the side of the Forum, but it is said that the windows looked inward upon a deep court of the Senator's palace.
We will now conclood the afternoon's galaxity of spurious stars, as the circus bills says, with a buckin' contest which unneedless to say will conclood the afternoon's celebration of the openin' of a institoot that it's a credit to any town in reference to which I mean the Wolf River Citizen's Bank in which we invite to whose vaults a fair share of your patrimony.
And other occupations beginning to pall, his lordship, accompanied and cheered by a chaplain, who had a fine taste in the decorative arts, came resolutely to Montfort Court; and there, surrounded with architects and gilders and upholsterers, redeemed his errors; and, soothed by the reflection of the palace provided for his successor, added to his vaults a coffin. The suite expands before the eye.
Over this little wavering taper in the vaults Emma cowered, cherishing the hand, silently hoping for the voice. It came: 'Winter. 'It is a cold winter, Tony. 'My dear will be cold. 'I will light the fire. Emma lost no time in deciding to seek the match-box. The fire was lit and it flamed; it seemed a revival in the room.
First of all, the large store of corn and fodder, the produce of the recent harvest, was landed and deposited in one of the vaults; then, on the 15th, about fifty head of live cattle bullocks, cows, sheep, and pigs were conveyed to their rocky stalls.
His attention was suddenly arrested by observing the platform descend into the abyss, moved by an unseen agency; for the apparatus was so contrived, that a person in the Vaults below could lower or raise the platform at will, by means of a rope connected with it.
There is a witness who has seen the parties, and as you say secrecy is needed, why, this darkness may be all the more favorable. But it is no concern of mine. Only I should think it equally safe, and a great deal pleasanter, to have the ceremony here than down in the vaults." All this had been spoken in a quick low tone, so as to guard against being overheard.
They are remarkably plucky, these small men and women of France. During one furious bombardment the children were safe in the vaults, but one small citizen began to cry bitterly. He was reproached by his comrades for cowardice, but he replied indignantly: "I fear nothing for myself I am safe here; but there is no cellar to our house, and oh! what will happen to the little mother?"
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