What a monument this to the dispositions and habits of the world, outside and inside, of that early time! Here is the porter's or warder's lodge just inside the huge gate.

To think of a living being with a human soul in him burrowing in such a place!--a big, black sarcophagus without a lid to it, set deep in the solid wall.

Then there is the chapel.

Compare it with that of Chatsworth, and you may count almost on your fingers the centuries that have intervened between them.

It was new-roofed soon after the discovery of America, and perhaps done up to some show of decency and comfort.
But how small and rude the pulpit and pews--looking like rough- boarded potato-bins! Here is the great banquet-hall, full to overflowing with the tracks and cross-tracks of that wild, strange life of old.