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The door is a Gothic arch, neatly pointed at the top, and flanked by slender stone columns hung with wrought-iron crests... ornate puzzle pieces, fern leaves and crossed swords and twisted spokes to crown the top, all curiously fitted together and bending towards a plank of banded oak...
This door never opens without diamonds-on-glass grating... it enters onto a foyer tiled with serpentine marble, a pool of dark forest green, almost black, liquid and reflecting the lamp light in hazy circles... just a few paces down, a set of double-doors leads to parts unknown, towards the west side of the house... a few steps more, and a door to the left leads eastward, into the drawing room...
Straight ahead lies the East Cloister, the corridor that leads straight into the dark heart of the house...
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