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 You will sit on old chairs, round an old table, by the light of old lamps, suspended from pointed arches, which, Mr. Chainmail says, first came into use in the twelfth century; with old armour on the pillars, and old banners in the roof.

And what curious piece of antiquity is the lady of the mansion?

No antiquity there; none.

Who was she?

That I know not.

Have you seen her?