Merciless Reason
“As he rode through the tall wrought-iron gates hung from marble pillars, Nate looked up the gravel driveway to the towering building that loomed above the rest of the manor house and the sight caused him to take a deep, shaky breath. Established in Norman times, Wildenstern Hall had been partly ruined, rebuilt, enlarged and refurbished many times. The tower that now formed the main part of the house was thirty stories high. Steel girders, anchored deep in the stone core of the mountain, formed ...the bones which supported the flesh of brick, wood and stone. There was no other building like it in the country—and very few like it in the world. Steam turbines powered its mechanical lifts and it was plumbed up to the very top floor and lit by gas-lamps.
Gothic turrets jutted from its roof into the sky and gutters emptied the rainwater they caught out of the mouths of gargoyles. Any eye looking over the structure would find itself caught by the high arches, flying buttresses and the sculpted terracotta paneling that formed a skin around it.MoreLess
Gothic turrets jutted from its roof into the sky and gutters emptied the rainwater they caught out of the mouths of gargoyles. Any eye looking over the structure would find itself caught by the high arches, flying buttresses and the sculpted terracotta paneling that formed a skin around it.MoreLess
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