I walked to one of the magnificent draperies, lifted a corner, and peeped in.

There, burned a great, crimson, globe-shaped light, high in the cubical centre of another hall, which might be larger or less than that in which I stood, for its dimensions were not easily perceived, seeing that floor and roof and walls were entirely of black marble.
The roof was supported by the same arrangement of pillars radiating in arches, as that of the first hall; only, here, the pillars and arches were of dark red.

But what absorbed my delighted gaze, was an innumerable assembly of white marble statues, of every form, and in multitudinous posture, filling the hall throughout.

These stood, in the ruddy glow of the great lamp, upon pedestals of jet black.

Around the lamp shone in golden letters, plainly legible from where I stood, the two words-- TOUCH NOT! There was in all this, however, no solution to the sound of dancing; and now I was aware that the influence on my mind had ceased.