CHAPTER XXI.
THE PUNISHMENT.
The house he was approaching, had a little the look of a prison.

Of the more ancient portion the windows were very small, and every corner had a turret with a conical cap-roof.

That part was all rough-cast, therefore grey, as if with age.

The more modern part was built of all kinds of hard stone, roughly cloven or blasted from the mountain and its boulders.

Granite red and grey, blue whinstone, yellow ironstone, were all mingled anyhow, fitness of size and shape alone regarded in their conjunctions; but the result as to colour was rather pleasing than otherwise, and Gibbie regarded it with some admiration.