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When Sir Norsley entered the ancient ruin, his head was fall of

Leoline--when he knelt down to look through the aperture in the flagged

floor, head and heart were full of her still But thefled far fro re of intensest aht below hi he had

raised see, in a remote corner Evidently

it was one of a range of lower vaults, and as he was at least fourteen

feet above it, and his corner so seen So, leaning far down to look at his leisure,

he took the goods the gods provided him, and stared to his heart's

content

Sir Nor the four-and-twenty years

he had spent in this queer world, but never anything quite equal to

this The aparthted with

the brilliance of noon-day; and every object it contained; from one end

to the other, was distinctly revealed The floor, frolimpses he

had of it in obscure corners, was of stone; but fros and mats, and squares of velvet of aswith splendid tapestry,

gorgeous in silk and coloring, representing the wars of Troy, the