an intelligent calculation by the reader may very well take the place of a tedious chronicle by the writer moreover the same monotony did not hang over every part of our story these very four months were enough to one of our characters and through him by subtle and positive links to every man and every woman who fills any considerable position in this ct romance therefore our story us from the meadows round to a massive building glaring red brick with white stone corners these colors and their contrast relieve the stately mass of some of that which the castles of antiquity but enough remains to strike some awe into the two round towers flank the principal entrance on one side of the hand tower is a small house constructed in the same style as the grand pile the castle is massive and grand this its is massive and tiny like the doing his little bit of bull � like a tremendous thick dwarf now no more there is one to all this gloomy grandeur a rich httle flower garden whose frame of turf goes smiling up to the very angle of the frowning fortress as some few happy lakes in the world wash the very foot of the mountains that hem them from this green spot a few flowers look up with bright and wondering eyes at the great over their heads and to the spectator of both these sparks of color at the castle foot are dazzling and charming they are like and pink in some uncouth ancient setting between the central towers is a sharp arch filled by a huge oak it is never too late to mend of the same shape and size which for security or ornament is closely studded with large nails a man with keys at his like the ancient opens the huge door to you with slight effort so well is it you slip under a porch into an enclosed yard the great door almost of itself and now it depends upon the man whether you ever see the vain idle and objectionable world again passing into the interior of the vast building you find yourself in an extensive aisle traversed at right angles by another of similar dimensions the whole in form of a cross in the centre of each aisle is an iron staircase so narrow that two people cannot pass and so light and open that it merely ornaments not the view of the aisle those make two springs the first takes them to the level of two on the first floor here there is a space of about a yard whence the staircase rises to the second and highest floor this gives three all studded with doors opening on small separate apartments whereof anon nearly all the inmates of this grim palace wear a costume and disguise one feature of which is a cap of coarse materials with a to it which the features all but the chin and the eyes which last peep in a very droll way through two holes cut for that purpose they are distinguished by a courteous manner to strangers whom they never fail to salute in passing with apparent cordiality indeed we fear we shall never meet in the busy world with such uniform as in this and similar it arises from two causes one is that here strangers are welcome from their another that politeness is a part of the education of the place which besides its other uses is an school of morals religion grammar writing and with the exception of its halls and the building is almost entirely divided into an immense number of the small apartments noticed above these are homely inside but exquisitely clean the furniture and fixed none of which is superfluous can be briefly described a consisting of the side walls of the apartment polished steel are fixed in these walls two on each side the apartment at an elevation of about two feet and a half the s bark has two stout steel hooks at each end these are into the and so he lies across his abode a deal table the size of a pocket handkerchief also a deal a so contrived that turned to the right it sends a small stream into a copper basin and to the left into a dose stool at some distance a small gas pipe tipped with polished brass in one angle of the wall a sort of or open cupboard on whose shelves a bright plate a knife and fork and a wooden spoon in a drawer of this yellow soap and a comb and brush a grating down low for hot air to come in if it likes and another up high for foul air to go out if it chooses on the wall a large containing rules for the tenant s direction and smaller containing from scripture the propriety of returning after food c a slate and a couple of knee guards used in the room and that is all but the deal furniture is so clean you might eat off it the walls are snow the copper basin and the brass gas pipe glitter like red gold and pale gold and the bed hooks like silver hot from the furnace altogether it is inviting at first sight to one of these snowy snug was now ushered an acquaintance of ours tom robinson a brief must dispose of it is never too late to mend when he left us he went to the where he remained until the an interval of a month he was tried direct evidence was strong against him and he defended himself with so ingenuity and of intellect that the could not doubt his of hand and morals too he was found guilty identified as a notorious thief and condemned to twelve months im and ten years he returned to the county for a few days and then was 