To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H₂O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
In contrast to it, however, the under-scaled entrance, the playful use of geometric shapes and the unexpected glimpses of bustling activity provided by narrow view shafts added the humanist qualities that Beaven so particularly valued.