Romance of London Strange Stories Scenes And Remarkable Persons of the Great T
Romance of London Strange Stories Scenes And Remarkable Persons of the Great T
John Timbs
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211 you that he lives in the ball below the cross on the top of St. Paul's, and that he only comes down to take a walk in the churchyard, and get his dinner in the house in the dark alley? Since the fatal interview with the necromancer, ' he continued, ' for such I be- lieve him to be, he is continually dragging me before him on his mirror, and he not only sees me every moment of the day, but he reads all my thoughts, and I have a dreadful consciousness that no action of my life is free from hi...s inspection, and no place can afford me security from his power. ' On my replying that the darkness of the night would afford him protection from these machinations, he said, ' I know what you mean, but you are quite mistaken. I have only told you of the mirror ; ' but in some part of the building which he passed in coming away, he showed me what he called a great bell, and I heard sounds which came from it, and which went to it; sounds of laughter, and of anger, and of pain ; there was a dreadful confusion of sounds, and as I listened with wonder and affright, he said, * This is my organ of hearing ; this great bell is in communication with all other bells within the circle of hieroglyphics, by which every word spoken by those under my control is made audible to me.
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