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The
usual
guide
from
the
hotel
having
followed
them
,
they
had
paid
two
conductors
,
nor
is
it
possible
,
at
Rome
,
to
avoid
this
abundant
supply
of
guides
;
besides
the
ordinary
cicerone
,
who
seizes
upon
you
directly
you
set
foot
in
your
hotel
,
and
never
quits
you
while
you
remain
in
the
city
,
there
is
also
a
special
cicerone
belonging
to
each
monument
--
nay
,
almost
to
each
part
of
a
monument
.
It
may
,
therefore
,
be
easily
imagined
there
is
no
scarcity
of
guides
at
the
Colosseum
,
that
wonder
of
all
ages
,
which
Martial
thus
eulogizes
:
"
Let
Memphis
cease
to
boast
the
barbarous
miracles
of
her
pyramids
,
and
the
wonders
of
Babylon
be
talked
of
no
more
among
us
;
all
must
bow
to
the
superiority
of
the
gigantic
labor
of
the
Caesars
,
and
the
many
voices
of
Fame
spread
far
and
wide
the
surpassing
merits
of
this
incomparable
monument
.
"
As
for
Albert
and
Franz
,
they
essayed
not
to
escape
from
their
ciceronian
tyrants
;
and
,
indeed
,
it
would
have
been
so
much
the
more
difficult
to
break
their
bondage
,
as
the
guides
alone
are
permitted
to
visit
these
monuments
with
torches
in
their
hands
.
Thus
,
then
,
the
young
men
made
no
attempt
at
resistance
,
but
blindly
and
confidingly
surrendered
themselves
into
the
care
and
custody
of
their
conductors
.
Albert
had
already
made
seven
or
eight
similar
excursions
to
the
Colosseum
,
while
his
less
favored
companion
trod
for
the
first
time
in
his
life
the
classic
ground
forming
the
monument
of
Flavius
Vespasian
;
and
,
to
his
credit
be
it
spoken
,
his
mind
,
even
amid
the
glib
loquacity
of
the
guides
,
was
duly
and
deeply
touched
with
awe
and
enthusiastic
admiration
of
all
he
saw
;
and
certainly
no
adequate
notion
of
these
stupendous
ruins
can
be
formed
save
by
such
as
have
visited
them
,
and
more
especially
by
moonlight
,
at
which
time
the
vast
proportions
of
the
building
appear
twice
as
large
when
viewed
by
the
mysterious
beams
of
a
southern
moonlit
sky
,
whose
rays
are
sufficiently
clear
and
vivid
to
light
the
horizon
with
a
glow
equal
to
the
soft
twilight
of
an
eastern
clime
.
Scarcely
,
therefore
,
had
the
reflective
Franz
walked
a
hundred
steps
beneath
the
interior
porticoes
of
the
ruin
,
than
,
abandoning
Albert
to
the
guides
(
who
would
by
no
means
yield
their
prescriptive
right
of
carrying
their
victims
through
the
routine
regularly
laid
down
,
and
as
regularly
followed
by
them
,
but
dragged
the
unconscious
visitor
to
the
various
objects
with
a
pertinacity
that
admitted
of
no
appeal
,
beginning
,
as
a
matter
of
course
,
with
the
Lions
'
Den
,
and
finishing
with
Caesar
's
"
Podium
,
"
)
,
to
escape
a
jargon
and
mechanical
survey
of
the
wonders
by
which
he
was
surrounded
,
Franz
ascended
a
half-dilapidated
staircase
,
and
,
leaving
them
to
follow
their
monotonous
round
,
seated
himself
at
the
foot
of
a
column
,
and
immediately
opposite
a
large
aperture
,
which
permitted
him
to
enjoy
a
full
and
undisturbed
view
of
the
gigantic
dimensions
of
the
majestic
ruin
.
Franz
had
remained
for
nearly
a
quarter
of
an
hour
perfectly
hidden
by
the
shadow
of
the
vast
column
at
whose
base
he
had
found
a
resting-place
,
and
from
whence
his
eyes
followed
the
motions
of
Albert
and
his
guides
,
who
,
holding
torches
in
their
hands
,
had
emerged
from
a
vomitarium
at
the
opposite
extremity
of
the
Colosseum
,
and
then
again
disappeared
down
the
steps
conducting
to
the
seats
reserved
for
the
Vestal
virgins
,
resembling
,
as
they
glided
along
,
some
restless
shades
following
the
flickering
glare
of
so
many
ignes-fatui
.
All
at
once
his
ear
caught
a
sound
resembling
that
of
a
stone
rolling
down
the
staircase
opposite
the
one
by
which
he
had
himself
ascended
.
There
was
nothing
remarkable
in
the
circumstance
of
a
fragment
of
granite
giving
way
and
falling
heavily
below
;
but
it
seemed
to
him
that
the
substance
that
fell
gave
way
beneath
the
pressure
of
a
foot
,
and
also
that
some
one
,
who
endeavored
as
much
as
possible
to
prevent
his
footsteps
from
being
heard
,
was
approaching
the
spot
where
he
sat
.
Conjecture
soon
became
certainty
,
for
the
figure
of
a
man
was
distinctly
visible
to
Franz
,
gradually
emerging
from
the
staircase
opposite
,
upon
which
the
moon
was
at
that
moment
pouring
a
full
tide
of
silvery
brightness
.
The
stranger
thus
presenting
himself
was
probably
a
person
who
,
like
Franz
,
preferred
the
enjoyment
of
solitude
and
his
own
thoughts
to
the
frivolous
gabble
of
the
guides
.
And
his
appearance
had
nothing
extraordinary
in
it
;
but
the
hesitation
with
which
he
proceeded
,
stopping
and
listening
with
anxious
attention
at
every
step
he
took
,
convinced
Franz
that
he
expected
the
arrival
of
some
person
.
By
a
sort
of
instinctive
impulse
,
Franz
withdrew
as
much
as
possible
behind
his
pillar
.
About
ten
feet
from
the
spot
where
he
and
the
stranger
were
,
the
roof
had
given
way
,
leaving
a
large
round
opening
,
through
which
might
be
seen
the
blue
vault
of
heaven
,
thickly
studded
with
stars
.
Around
this
opening
,
which
had
,
possibly
,
for
ages
permitted
a
free
entrance
to
the
brilliant
moonbeams
that
now
illumined
the
vast
pile
,
grew
a
quantity
of
creeping
plants
,
whose
delicate
green
branches
stood
out
in
bold
relief
against
the
clear
azure
of
the
firmament
,
while
large
masses
of
thick
,
strong
fibrous
shoots
forced
their
way
through
the
chasm
,
and
hung
floating
to
and
fro
,
like
so
many
waving
strings
.
The
person
whose
mysterious
arrival
had
attracted
the
attention
of
Franz
stood
in
a
kind
of
half-light
,
that
rendered
it
impossible
to
distinguish
his
features
,
although
his
dress
was
easily
made
out
.
He
wore
a
large
brown
mantle
,
one
fold
of
which
,
thrown
over
his
left
shoulder
,
served
likewise
to
mask
the
lower
part
of
his
countenance
,
while
the
upper
part
was
completely
hidden
by
his
broad-brimmed
hat
.
The
lower
part
of
his
dress
was
more
distinctly
visible
by
the
bright
rays
of
the
moon
,
which
,
entering
through
the
broken
ceiling
,
shed
their
refulgent
beams
on
feet
cased
in
elegantly
made
boots
of
polished
leather
,
over
which
descended
fashionably
cut
trousers
of
black
cloth
.
From
the
imperfect
means
Franz
had
of
judging
,
he
could
only
come
to
one
conclusion
--
that
the
person
whom
he
was
thus
watching
certainly
belonged
to
no
inferior
station
of
life
.
