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As to ornament, there wasn't any, strictly
speaking; though on the walls hung some huge tapestries
which were probably taxed as works of art;
battle-pieces, they were, with horses shaped like those
which children cut out of paper or create in ginger-
bread; with men on them in scale armor whose scales
are represented by round holes - so that the man's
coat looks as if it had been done with a biscuit-punch.