"Stay here," said he, "just while I fetch a light." He returned, bearing a candle, before I had time to ponder on my present situation.
We now ascended a staircase, covered with painted canvas.

No one whose inexperience is less than mine can imagine to himself the impressions made upon me by surrounding objects.

The height to which this stair ascended, its dimensions, and its ornaments, appeared to me a combination of all that was pompous and superb.
We stopped not till we had reached the third story.

Here my companion unlocked and led the way into a chamber.

"This," said he, "is my room; permit me to welcome you into it." I had no time to examine this room before, by some accident, the candle was extinguished.