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V
PURGATORY
Hôtel Orfila has a monastic appearance, and is
a boarding establishment for Catholic students.
It is superintended by a quiet, amiable Abbé, and
peace, order, and morality prevail here. What
especially comforts me after so many annoyances
is, that women are not admitted here. The house
is old, the rooms are low, the passages dark, and
the wooden staircases wind and twist hither
and thither as if in a labyrinth. There is an
air of mysteriousness about the whole building,
which for a long time has attracted me. My
room looks out on a cul-de-sac, so that standing
in the middle of it, one sees nothing but a moss-grown
wall with two small round windows in
it. But when I sit at my table close to the
window, I have an uncommonly pleasant look-out.
Under me there is a circular wall overgrown
with ivy surrounding a courtyard, where
young girls walk under plane trees and acacias.
In the centre there stands a charming Gothic
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