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GONZAGA UNMASKS.
The four great outer walls of Roccaleone stood ranged into a mighty square, of which the castle proper occupied but half.

The other half, running from north to south, was a stretch of garden, broken into three terraces.

The highest of these was no more than a narrow alley under the southern wall, roofed from end to end by a trellis of vines on beams blackened with age, supported by uprights of granite, square and roughly hewn.
A steep flight of granite steps, weedy in the interstices of the old stone, and terminating in a pair of couchant lions at the base, led down to the middle terrace, which was called the upper garden.

This was split in twain by a very gallery of gigantic box trees running down towards the lower terrace, and bearing eloquent witness to the age of that old garden.