I wondered then who would buy some of the garments hung up.

They were so old and so often mended that it was difficult to say what was the original colour.

The people are very poor up in the mountains; since the war began, doubtless they have grown poorer, and are glad to buy anything that will cover them." "Well, here are ten crowns." "They won't cost half that, master, but I will take them." "Mind and get something warm, Paolo; it is like enough that we shall have to sleep more than once in the open air, and the winds are bitterly cold." In half an hour the officer came with the plan, which Hector at once set to to study.

The citadel stood on ground but little, if at all, higher than that upon which the town was situated.

It was pentagonal in form, and was built in 1565, and was the earliest fortification in Europe in this style, and was considered a masterpiece.