It led into a spacious parlour, furnished with profusion and splendour.

I walked to and fro, gazing at the objects which presented themselves; and, involved in perplexity, I knocked with my heel louder than ever; but no less ineffectually.
Notwithstanding the lights which I had seen, it was possible that the house was uninhabited.

This I was resolved to ascertain, by proceeding to the chamber which I had observed, from without, to be illuminated.
This chamber, as far as the comparison of circumstances would permit me to decide, I believed to be the same in which I had passed the first night of my late abode in the city.

Now was I, a second time, in almost equal ignorance of my situation, and of the consequences which impended, exploring my way to the same recess.
I mounted the stair.

As I approached the door of which I was in search, a vapour, infectious and deadly, assailed my senses.