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To the left (of the actor) stands a house of one storey, covered with ivy and roses,—its windows shaded by verandahs. A garden runs backwards from the house, in which the vegetation displays a tropical luxuriance. Some date-palms in the foreground. At the end of the garden is seen a wall of rock, overgrown with brushwood, and in it a door so covered with moss and creepers, that it is only perceptible when open. Behind this wall lofty mountains stretch into the distance.