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For, the rooms, though a beautiful scene to look at, and adorned

with every device of decoration that the taste and skill of the

time could achieve, were, in truth, not a sound business;

considered with any reference to the scarecrows in the rags and

nightcaps elsewhere (and not so far off, either, but that the

watching towers of Notre Dame, almost equidistant from the two

extremes, could see them both), they would have been an

exceedingly uncomfortable business--if that could have been

anybody's business, at the house of Monseigneur.