"We no longer build in this manner.

The loop-holes here, close under the roof, were walled up already in my father's time.

But only notice this timber!" The whole loft appeared a gigantic skeleton composed of beams, one crossing the other.

On either side of the loft was a small vaulted chamber, with a brick fire-place.

Probably these chambers had been used as guard-rooms; a kind of warder's walk led from these, between the beam-palisade and the broad wall.
"Yes, here," said the Kammerjunker, "they could have had a good lookout toward the enemy.