tresseled

Updated: May 14, 2025

It was a dark vaulted closet on the ground-floor, gaining light from the stable-yard through a barred iron grating. At the first glimpse it looked like a prison cell; looking more deliberately at the black tresseled bed, and the votive images hanging on the wall, it might have been a tomb. "It is the best," said the landlord. "The Padre Vincento will have none other on his journey."

Bret Harte - Maruja