The wallsand ceiling were alive with reptiles--the vault expanded to an enormoussize--frightful figures flitted to and fro--and the faces of men heknew, rendered hideous by gibing and mouthing, peered out from amongthem; they were searing him with heated irons, and binding his head withcords till the blood started; and he struggled madly for life.
The whole place seemed restless and troubled; and thepeople were crowding and flitting to and fro, like the shadows in anuneasy dream.