thestation
isn't
far." So
great had
become the
reliance
which by
this time
I
habitually
reposed in
these men,
that I
never
sought to
oppose
their
pronouncements
(such a
course
being not
only
useless
but
undignified),
and we
therefore
together
reached
the place
which the
one by my
side had
described
as a
station.
From the
outside
the
building
was in no
way
imposing,
but upon
reaching
an inner
dungeon it
at once
became
plain that
