16/135 She does not look to be more than sixteen years old." "Let's go up. But wait--can we see that section from here ?" They were standing at the foot of the great staircase connecting the two floors. Above them, stretching away on either side, ran the two famous, highly ornamented galleries, with their row of long, low arches indicating the five compartments into which they were severally divided. We shall have to shift those to some other place just as soon as we can recover from this horror. I don't want the finest spot in the whole museum made a Mecca for the morbid and the curious." The remark fell upon unheeding ears. |