. Shakespeare's England . ^ard. The Tower is a place for suchdeeds, and you almost wonder that they do not happenstill, in its gloomy chambers. The room in which theprinces were killed (if killed indeed they were) is par-ticularly grisly in aspect. It is an inner room, smalland dark. A barred window in one of its walls frontsa window on the other side of the passage by whichyou approach it. This is but a few feet from the floor,and perhaps the murderers paused to look through it asthey went to their hellish work upon the children ofking Edward. The entrance was indicated to a secretpassage by
. Shakespeare's England . ^ard. The Tower is a place for suchdeeds, and you almost wonder that they do not happenstill, in its gloomy chambers. The room in which theprinces were killed (if killed indeed they were) is par-ticularly grisly in aspect. It is an inner room, smalland dark. A barred window in one of its walls frontsa window on the other side of the passage by whichyou approach it. This is but a few feet from the floor,and perhaps the murderers paused to look through it asthey went to their hellish work upon the children ofking Edward. The entrance was indicated to a secretpassage by which this apartment could be approachedfrom the foot of the Tower. In one gloomy stonechamber the crown jewels are exhibited, in a largeglass case. One of the royal relics is a crown of velvetand gold that was made for poor Anne Boleyn. Youmay pass across the courtyard and pause on the spotwhere that miserable woman was beheaded, and you. o Q2O o Ill GREAT HISTORIC PLACES 35 may wahc thence over the ground that her last trem-bling footsteps traversed, to the round tower in which,at the close, she lived. Her grave is in the chancel ofthe little antique church, close by. I saw the cell ofRaleigh, and that direful chamber which is scrawled allover with the names and emblems of prisoners whotherein suffered confinement and lingering agony,nearly always ending in death; but I saw no sadderplace than Anne Boleyns tower. It seemed in thestrangest way eloquent of mute suffering. It seemedto exhale grief and to plead for love and pity. Yet —what woman ever had greater love than was lavishedon her .-* And what woman ever trampled more royallyand recklessly upon human hearts .* The Tower of London is degraded by being put tocommonplace uses and by being exhibited in a common-place manner. They use the famous White Tower nowas a store-house for arms, and it contains about onehundred thousand guns, besides a vast collection of ol
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