"Montgomery," said I, suddenly, as the outer door closed, "why has your man
pointed ears?"
Everything struck your eye at once: the carved gable, the
pointed roof, the turrets suspended at the angles of the walls; the stone pyramids of the eleventh century, the slate obelisks of the fifteenth; the round, bare tower of the donjon keep; the square and fretted tower of the church; the great and the little, the massive and the aerial.