And inside the building are halls
and cells as in a castle. Here Ture the Great ruled like a prince in his
day.
But times changed. Houses were made not only big, not only to live in for
shelter from cold and rain, but also to look on with pleasure to the eye.
On the opposite side of the river stands an old archaic building with
carefully balanced verandah in the Empire style, pillars, fronton, and
all. It is not faultless, but handsome all the same; it stands out like a
white temple on the green hillside. One other house I have seen and
stopped to look at; one near the market-place. Its double street door has
old handles and carved rococo mirrors, but the frames cannelated in the
style of Louis XVI. The cartouche above the doorway bears the date 1795 in
Arabic numerals--that was our transition period here! So there were folk
here at that time who kept in touch with the times, without the aid of
steam and telegraph.
But later on, again, houses were built to keep off rain and snow and
nothing else.
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