And yet, at the very door the Musketeer began to entertain some doubts. The approach was not such as to prepossess people--an ill-smelling, dark passage, a staircase half-lighted by bars through which stole a glimmer from a neighboring yard; on the first floor a low door studded with enormous nails, like the principal gate of the Grand Chatelet.
Sin embargo, a la puerta el mosquetero tuvo algunas dudas: el comienzo era para animar a la gente: alameda hedionda y negra, escalera mal aclarada por barrotes a través de los cuales se filtraba la luz de un patio vecino; en el primer piso una puerta baja y herrada con enormes clavos como la puerta principal de Grand Chátelet.