This building was called the Accountant-General's Record Office, and very probably, in the gloom of its dark cellars, may lie to this day the records of the expenditure of many a fair property which has gotten itself into Chancery, and has never gotten itself out again. It was entered by a dark hall, the door of which was never closed; and which, having another door at its further end leading into another lane, had become itself a thoroughfare. 
The ugly stone building, which was called the Accountant-General's Record Office, was entered by a dark hall; and, having an open door at either end, this had become a thoroughfare. 