text:  He went on through long galleries and magnificent rooms all silent as death statues which represented man in his glory and his strength; books which were the work of that high spirit now extinguished under the pressure of bodily wants; luxurious superfluities which were for better days of the world--all was valueless all open; he might go where he would till at length one door resisted his efforts and seemed to have been barred with a certain care from within