The Chelsea Pensioners #272209

Giles's, the faintest symptoms of life were not yet beginning to be exhibited. So perfect, indeed, was the silence, and so complete the appearance of desolation, that it would have required but a slender exertion of fancy to induce the persuasion, that the legends of the East were realized, and that I was an isolated wanderer in a city of palaces, from which some magic power had removed all living things, leaving things inanimate in their original splendour.