Was it the fall of the trap-door that I heard?

• +..Beautiful piano


• +..Electronika


• +..Elektronika

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As these thoughts passed rapidly through her mind, she recollected a subterraneous passage which led from the vaults of the castle to the church of St. Nicholas.  Could she reach the altar before she was overtaken, she knew even Manfred’s violence would not dare to profane the sacredness of the place; and she determined, if no other means of deliverance offered, to shut herself up for ever among the holy virgins whose convent was contiguous to the cathedral.  In this resolution, she seized a lamp that burned at the foot of the staircase, and hurried towards the secret passage.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto