1 At one corner of the room was a heavy door.
2 The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust.
3 Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness.
4 There were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder.
5 Now I can hear the heavy feet tramping again along the hall, with many other idle feet coming behind them.
6 They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.
7 I descended, minding carefully where I went, for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry.
8 It is surrounded by a high wall, of ancient structure, built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for a large number of years.
9 With strained ears, I listened, and heard downstairs the grinding of the key in the great lock and the falling back of the heavy door.
10 At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.
11 Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light.
12 After a pause of a moment, he proceeded, in his stately way, to the door, drew back the ponderous bolts, unhooked the heavy chains, and began to draw it open.
13 I tried it harder, and found that it was not really locked, but that the resistance came from the fact that the hinges had fallen somewhat, and the heavy door rested on the floor.
14 At the end of this he threw open a heavy door, and I rejoiced to see within a well-lit room in which a table was spread for supper, and on whose mighty hearth a great fire of logs, freshly replenished, flamed and flared.
15 As I waited I heard in the distance a gipsy song sung by merry voices coming closer, and through their song the rolling of heavy wheels and the cracking of whips; the Szgany and the Slovaks of whom the Count had spoken were coming.
16 The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
17 The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails.
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