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The piers are throughout cross-shaped with a half-shaft on each cardinal face: at the crossing there is also a shaft in the angle, but elsewhere this shaft is replaced by a kind of corbel capital at the very top which carries the diagonal ribs another proof, as is the size of the transverse arches, that such a ribbed vault was still a half-understood novelty.
He stood on the worst terms of all with black-haired Xaver, to whom he owed the nickname. This boy's father was the chief magistrate of the little city, and was allowed to take his son home with him at Michaelmas. When the black-haired lad returned, he had many things to tell, gathered from half-understood rumor, about Ulrich's parents.
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