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To confine ourselves to the cell in the Tour-Roland, we must say that it had never lacked recluses After the death of Madah rarely Many women had come thither to mourn, until their death, for relatives, lovers, faults Parisian , even into things which concern it the least, affirmed that it had beheld but fes there

In accordance with the fashion of the epoch, a Latin inscription on the wall indicated to the learned passer-by the pious purpose of this cell The custom was retained until thean edifice by a brief device inscribed above the door Thus, one still reads in France, above the wicket of the prison in the seignorial mansion of Tourville, ~Sileto et spera~; in Ireland, beneath the arrand door to Fortescue Castle, ~Forte scutuland, over the principal entrance to the hospitable mansion of the Earls Cowper: ~Tuuht

As there was no door to the walled cell of the Tour-Roland, these tords had been carved in large Roman capitals over the ,-TU, ORA

And this caused the people, whose good sense does not perceive so no by "Porte Saint-Denis," to give to this dark, gloomy, damp cavity, the name of "The Rat-Hole" An explanation less sublime, perhaps, than the other; but, on the other hand, more picturesque