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"The three questions are: first, 'What art thou? second, 'Why comest thou here, O spirit? third, 'What instructions desirest thou to give me? Strictly speaking, they ought to be asked in Gaelic, but exceptions have been made on former occasions, and Mac-Dui who pipes, by the way, in the anteroom assures me that English will satisfy the Wraith in your case."
"Will you try to command the storm to stand still?" asked Count Cobenzl. "Yes, I will try, for we must not break off the negotiations in this way and recommence hostilities. We must conciliate this terrible warrior!" He rushed out of the room, and hastened through the anteroom and down-stairs to the front door.
Then turning to the Prince de Harrai, he continued good-humoredly: "If your highness is made to wait in the anteroom, there is no reason why the Count of Falkenstein should not bear you company. Let us, then, wait together." The ministerial conference lasted half an hour longer, but at last the door opened, and Monsieur de Maurepas appeared.
Before receiving the living he visited the dead man who may be assumed to have been honest in his intention, as he undoubtedly proved himself to be brave in action; the best man that Spain produced in her time of trouble. Among the first to bow before the King were the two Sarrions, and as they returned into an anteroom they came face to face with Evasio Mon, waiting his turn there.
Some two weeks after the events just narrated, a youth, tanned to the swarthiness of an Indian, whose hair was long and unkempt, and whose well-worn suit of buckskin evidenced hard and prolonged travel, paced impatiently to and fro in the anteroom of Sir William's private office at Johnson Castle.
I wondered why Theodore had not returned with our luncheon, but on going to the little anteroom which divides my office from the outer door, great was my astonishment to see him lolling there on the rickety chair which he affectioned, and half asleep. I had some difficulty in rousing him.
Mademoiselle Louise, fresh, smiling, and officious, came at once from the anteroom, and began the toilet of her mistress. She seemed to take more pleasure than usual in gathering her magnificent dark coils into a net of gold and pearls, and to linger more admiringly than ever over the last little touches given to the lace that bordered Laura's neglige of spotless white mull.
The door shut behind her sharply, with a click like a little trap; and she breathed such an atmosphere, flat, faint and stale, the mere ghost of some fuller, more fragrant flavor. In the little anteroom where they stood, whose faded ceiling all but brushed their heads, and in the larger little room beyond the Nottingham lace curtains, prevailed a mild shabbiness, a respectable decay.
The bridegroom, availing himself of his privileges, pursued his researches in the bride's room. "Where does this door lead to?" "Into an anteroom where my lady visitors take off their cloaks; you came that way when you visited me the first time." "And the other little door?" "Oh, never mind that it only leads to my dressing-room." "Has it no exit?"
When they were alone together he and she in her anteroom in the Northern Tower, she turned to him before he had time to question her as he was intending. "A courier has arrived," said she. "I know; I saw him in the courtyard. Whence is he? Did you learn it?" "From Florimond." She was white with agitation. "From the Marquis de Condillac?" he cried, and he knew not whether to hope or fear.
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