Then a chest of drawers with two of the brass handles off, and a tawdry, broken china inkstand placed on it by way of ornament for the top.

Then the dressing-table, adorned by a very small looking-glass, and a very large pincushion.

Then the window--an unusually large window.
Then a dark old picture, which the feeble candle dimly showed me.

It was a picture of a fellow in a high Spanish hat, crowned with a plume of towering feathers.

A swarthy, sinister ruffian, looking upward, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking intently upward--it might be at some tall gallows at which he was going to be hanged.