But those who abode there were few in number, and their thoughts were hardly worthy of Nina's speculation.

The windows of kings' palaces look out from many chambers.

The windows of the Hradschin look out, as we are told, from a thousand.

But the rooms within have seldom many tenants, nor the tenants, perhaps, many thoughts.

Chamber after chamber, you shall pass through them by the score, and know by signs unconsciously recognised that there is not, and never has been, true habitation within them.