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HOUSE BUILDING. 34 3
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Ii. When Mode Of We Building Last Put Ho...
thin garden and , cold droop and ing " , barren trying , in to which stretch a its lonel bran y tree dies stood over like the low a solit wall ary in cap search tive , al in size to the lower
ones of the ; country they served . The as house sleeping had apartments two rooms , ahove and on , equ the third floor were the garrets ( in Spain , where ) should the call single a hovel servant , the slept Spaniard . * * installed * In this his young place , which wife , from and we
here she remained alonefor her husband was the whole day away homeon account of the great , distance from tlie centre of the city . " , Suchis the dismal view of a London house taken by a
called traveller the , and Walter writer Scott , who of , as S ain t . ribu Our te t own o his Walt genius er Scott , has been gave
no us t no acknowled far to learn ged his picture ideas p of modern a modern London staircased , but we house need .
We p go ass over Dumbiedykes Castle , though it is indeed a picture of a stair-containing each floor house ins , tead with of the the orthodox fference of two having but it is
one room on , in and Coningsburg primitive" that Cas we tle , recogniz though e S the cott prototyp designates e of the it as Eng u lish rude
man ' s Castle of , the present day . We learn that the mode of peculiar entering and the grea took t tower of the rude Coni simp gsburg lici ty of Castle the e arly tim very e
in which , it was par erected . " " A steep fliht of sts led uto the door" which was
gepp , abo criminal ve the s level though of less the underground lowest storey than ( used our as kitchens a dungeon ) while for
, , l eading up lica from ted en the trance door t was he good a staircase King Ri . ch a By this followed difficult by
his fai comp thful Ivanhoewere , ushered into the round , apartment , " in which Cedric received , his stsand on this same floor was
to a smal the l oratory room used , " ano as ther a ch winding apel . " stair After , conducted ascending t a few t s tep an s t
be occupy s a par i tment room ing in of " deed tl des the tined t then he sam e t for orey as size guests now immedia with the ; " that order tw te o ly they rooms above of the had it upon ; d firs ay and . t each en a And small ered flo in or ,
describin Sir Walter g apparen g ho becomes w a y cert so ain confused ladder give that s en he trance confuses to the the dungeons reader , ,
burg dwelling and h prevents was . Except in reali his for t recognizing y the as difficulties wisely that planned of the the a stairs house s his , C own at onin Conings gs London burgh
when would we appear find t on o us a careful to have examination been a ver of y modern the notes hous th at , and the flight of steps up to the door was four feet and a hal Scott f and should the
rude staircase say that architecture Coningsburg five feet " wide of the , w we as earl are onl at y Scandin " a loss step avians to in see . advance why A staircase from five the
text feet , wide iC in would the diffi he culty considered with y which now very access amp is le gained ; but , from says one our
House Building. 34 3
HOUSE BUILDING . 34 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/55/
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