Sentence:  The Lord Mayor, in the <WSD>stronghold</WSD> of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and blood-thirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.