Soon the compass of the room became too narrow, and the elevation of the bed-posts too trifling for his expanding ideas.

He went to the window, and, opening it, looked forth.

Here was a new temptation.
The roof of a piazza, built out from a second story, came up to within a foot of the window-sill.

He had often ventured upon this roof, and he sprung out upon it again without a moment's hesitation or reflection, and running along, with the lightness of a cat, gained the roof of the back building, which he ascended to the very apex, and then placed himself astride thereof.

Here he sat for some minutes looking around him and enjoying the prospect.