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Alleyne bore his share and his ale-mug away with him to a retired trestle in the corner, where he could sup in peace and watch the strange scene, which was so different to those silent and well-ordered meals to which he was accustomed. The room was not unlike a stable. The low ceiling, smoke-blackened and dingy, was pierced by several square trap-doors with rough-hewn ladders leading up to them.
"Undoubtedly you are a stranger," said the friendly youth, eyeing me from top to toe with renewed wonder, "and by your unknown garb one from afar." "From how far no man can say not even I but from very far, in truth. Let that stay your curiosity for the time. And now to bench and ale-mug, on good fellow! the shortest way.
Jest, quip and lively saying shortened his route to the doorway of the Circuit Court, and he insisted on Chrysler's passing to his quarters upstairs. The court-room was stocked with dusty benches and tables, on and about which a small but noisy company were postured. One reckless fellow swinging an ale-mug was singing: "Tant qu'on le pourra, larirette, On se damnera, larir
"Good lad!" growled John Warren; and then Dave shook his head at the ale-mug, sighed, and drank. "But don't let father hear what you say, because he won't like it." "Nay, I sha'n't say nowt," said Dave. "Nay, nor me neither, only natur's natur, and floods is floods," added John Warren; and he too shook his head at the ale-mug, and drank.
The oldest tower of the castle, the Dragon Tower, stood up as grotesque as the ale-mug, but as homely. Only beyond the tower glimmered the wood in which the man had lain dead. "What became of this Hedwig eventually?" asked the priest at last. "She is married to General Schwartz," said Flambeau. "No doubt you've heard of his career, which was rather romantic.
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