It was gloomy and stately, however it owed its man or woman nearly in reality to its noble form and to the awesome architectural doorways—as excessive as the doorways of homes—which, primary into the various rooms, repeated themselves on each side at durations. They have been surmounted with antique faded painted escutcheons, and proper here and there, within the regions among them, brown pix, which I appeared to be terrible, in battered frames, have been suspended. With the exception of numerous straw-bottomed chairs with their backs to the wall, the grand hard to apprehend vista contained no
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