C. Thème (Prépositions

I. Every day the banker was seated at his desk from morning to night. 2. He lived in a palace provided with iron gates and chains. 3. Outside the walls of the city, he had had built a great hospital. 4. When he came home, one winter evening, he was surrounded on his threshold by a crowd of half-naked beggars. 5. They were forming a circle around him, when he saw coming a servant carrying a basket of black loaves on his head.