Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Una lettera Anonima. LO SCRIVANO PUBBLICO. Quindici o sedici anni fa la corte della Santa Capel- la presentava un aspetto differentissimo da quello che oggi ci offre. Non gi perch vi siano stati eseguiti molti cambiamenti, o perch se ne siano abbelliti od allargati gli sbocchi adiacenti pei quali vi si giunge. No, tutto ci rimasto quasi nello stato primitivo. Il muro in tavole, che altravolta chiudeva la scalinata per la quale si saliva al corridoio che comunicava colla sala dei passi perduti, abbench un poco rialzato, adesso tuttavia gira attorno al vecchio monumento; per la crescente attivit stabilitasi in questo circondario poco a poco ha fatto scomparire molte delle marche caratteristiche del vecchio Parigi. Primathis new thoroughfare the court of the Holy Chapel was almost as a suburb of the city where every track of Parisian society was lost, one after another. This courtyard formed a little world by itself, which had its own invariable customs; now noisy, now silent and always frequented by the same people. Early in the morning by the ushers of the Supreme Court who remained till the hour at Avhich the referendaires were used to arrive, by the clerks of a lawyer’s office situated upon the threshold of the den of sophistry, and by the housekeepers of the neighborhood, who mingled with the water carriers at the corner of the little street of St. ‘Ann. At twelve o'clock, when all was quiet the honorable members of public surety, whose barracks were not far off, and who, without any efl'ort of imagination, could have been compared to the paltoni.ei$ of old times, were used to come to warm themselves in the sunshine. Every day at about the same time the courtyard resounded with the noise of heavy vans whose stables were at the northern corner of the Corte dei Co…
