Next to this was a large apartment or hall, the doors of which he habitually kept locked, his object being (as we were informed) to pursue his studies uninterruptedly in perfect solitude.

On the other side of the large hall were the bedchamber occupied by her ladyship, and the dressing-room in which the maid slept previous to her departure for England.

Beyond these were the dining and reception rooms, opening into an antechamber, which gave access to the grand staircase of the palace.
'The only inhabited rooms on the second floor were the sitting-room and bedroom occupied by Baron Rivar, and another room at some distance from it, which had been the bedroom of the courier Ferrari.
'The rooms on the third floor and on the basement were completely unfurnished, and in a condition of great neglect.

We inquired if there was anything to be seen below the basement--and we were at once informed that there were vaults beneath, which we were at perfect liberty to visit.
'We went down, so as to leave no part of the palace unexplored.

The vaults were, it was believed, used as dungeons in the old times--say, some centuries since.