SECOND. Look, at the people hurrying this way now!
FIRST (staring round at the walls). I say, old fellow, it must have been covered with paintings once, do you know. One can make them out even now, here and there.
SECOND. To be sure! Of course the walls were covered with paintings. Now it's all been let go to rack and ruin, and the old place is falling to pieces. There's been nothing done to it since the fire. But to be sure you don't remember that fire, it will be forty years ago.
FIRST. Whatever's this picture here, old fellow? It's not easy to make out what it's about.
SECOND. That's a picture of the torments of hell.
FIRST. Oh! so that's what it is!
SECOND. And there's folks of all sorts and conditions going down into the fire, see?
FIRST. To be sure, yes, I understand it now.
SECOND. Of every sort and rank.
FIRST. And niggers too?