Word: basement
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...modest young lady guards the portal of that famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed...
...worst of the matter is, that the gas is turned off at the meters, so that it cannot be lit again during the night. A man's vexation when he finds himself in a black basement with only a match or two in his pockets is almost intolerable...