There were large wooden, gates at each, which were usually left open, but each of which was guarded by two white-washed lions--not quite so much at ease as those on the pedestals, for they were fixed a-top of pillars hardly broad enough to support them.

But this doubtless only increased their watchfulness.
But the glory of the chateau was the large garden behind the house.

It was completely enclosed by a very high wall, and, like the house, was nearly square in its proportions.

It contained miles of walks, and each walk so like the others, that a stranger might wander there for a week without knowing that he had retraversed the same ground, were it not that he could not fail to recognize the quaint groups of figures which met him at every turn.

A few of these were of stone, rudely sculptured, but by far the greater number were of painted wood, and, like the shepherds and shepherdesses in the drawing-room, displayed every action of rural life.