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principal courts, led him partly through private passages exposed to the open air, but chiefly through a maze of stairs, vaults, and galleries, communicating with each other by secret doors, and at unexpected points, into a large and spacious latticed gallery, which, from its breadth, might have been almost termed a hall, hung with tapestry more ancient than beautiful, and with a very few of the hard, tiffany and co cold, ghastly-looking pictures, belonging to the first dawn of the arts, which preceded their splendid sunrise.
These were designed to represent the Paladins of Charlemagne, who made such a distinguished figure in the romantic history of France and as the gigantic form of the celebrated Orlando constituted the most prominent figure, the apartment acquired from him the title of Roland's Hall, or Roland's gallery.* "You will keep watch here," said Oliver, in a low whisper, as if the hard delineations of monarch* and warriors around could Prada Wallets for men have been offended at the elevation of his voice, or as if he had feared to awaken the echoes that lurked among the groined-vaults and Gothic drop-work on the ceiling of this huge and dreary apartment. " What are the orders and signs of my watch ?" answered Quentin, in the same suppressed tone. "Is your harquebuss loaded?" replied Oliver, without answering his query.