The
old-fashioned
brass
knocker on
the low
arched
door,
ornamented
with
carved
garlands
of fruit
and
flowers,
twinkled
like a
star; the
two stone
steps
descending
to the
door were
as white
as if they
had been
covered
with fair
linen; and
all the
angles and
corners,
and
carvings
and
mouldings,
and quaint
little
panes of
glass, and
quainter
little
windows,
though as
old as the
hills,
were as
pure as
any snow
that ever
fell upon
