2d. A small community-room, beyond which is a passage with a narrow
staircase, seldom used, which leads into the fourth community-room, in
the first story. Following the passage just mentioned, you enter by a
door--

3d. A little sitting-room, furnished in the following manner: with
chairs, a sofa, on the north side, covered with a red-figured cover and
fringe, a table in the middle, commonly bearing one or two books, an
inkstand, pens, &c. At one corner is a little projection into the room,
caused by a staircase leading from above to the floor below, without any
communication with the second story. This room has a door opening upon a
staircase leading down to the yard, on the opposite side of which is a
gate opening into the cross street. By this way the physician is
admitted, except when he comes later than usual. When he comes in, he
usually sits a little while, until a nun goes into the adjoining nuns'
sick-room, to see if all is ready, and returns to admit him. After
prescribing for the patients he goes no farther, but returns by the way
he enters; and these two are the only rooms into which he is ever
admitted, except the public hospital.

4th. The nuns' sick-room adjoins the little sitting-room on the east,
and has, I think, four windows towards the north, with beds ranged in
two rows from end to end, and a few more between them, near the opposite
extremity. The door from the sitting-room swings to the left, and behind
it is a table, while a glass case, to the right, contains a wax figure
of the infant Saviour, with several sheep. Near the northeastern corner
of this room are two doors, one of which opens into a long and narrow
passage leading to the head of the great staircase that conducts to the
cross street. By this passage the physician sometimes finds his way to
the sick-room, when he comes later than usual. He rings the bell at the