The Slave Sculptor — page 34: what you’re looking at

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86 TUE SLAVE SCULVTOR. No. person entering this cave. would have supposed, from appear- ances, that there was a passage leading to any apartments beyond. It was seldom that strangers called; but, when they did, there was never anything visible to excite suspicion of other rooms and a more luxurious life, , A store in the floor could be removed. It concealed an opening large enough to admit the passage of a person. Descending down into this, and passing along on a level for a short distance then as- cending a long flight of stone steps, you would come to apartments in the wall, those to which we have referred. These secret chambers were furnished in a style at once peculiar and sumptuous. The floors were covered with palm-leaves, the walls hung with draperies of feather-work, and the ceilings bedecked with rich hangings. In one room was a coach, screened by the finest cotton, heavily tains, visible far across great valley, and was pouring i cave, and fell partly upon the form of a woman, seated on a low woman was Meztli’s mother. lived in this cave over in dyes were obtained froin both mineral and vegetable substances their cioth was manufactured from cotton, raised in abundiees through ro fr warmer regions of the country. This i rtant article was degree of fineness required, and, ind desired the. web web ealivedl wite comcbooks.com