...broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors...loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one...

...slept off his debauch [excessive drinking], and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors,...loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one...

...broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors,...loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one...

...broke. 35 The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors,...loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such 40 as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one...

...broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors by piling upon each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome...