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She went off at eight o'clock preceded by Le Duc, who had orders to greet the doorkeeper's family on my behalf. At Magnan's I had a dinner worthy of Lucullus, and I promised to stay with him whenever I passed Chamberi, which promise I have faithfully performed. On leaving the gourmand's I went to the convent, and M M came down alone to the grating.
He had prepared everything his master would need to shoot the birds very early in the morning, and after helping the men push the boats into the water, he, too, remained out of doors. The old Nubian doorkeeper's little badger dog ran to meet him, as usual, barking loudly, and startled a flock of sparrows, which flew up directly in front of Bias and fluttered to and fro in confusion.
"As you see." "I beg your pardon, Monsieur Constant; but it is because in such times as these there are always persons who try to enter without paying." "That is good! That is good!" and the Emperor laughed heartily at the doorkeeper's observations.
In the afternoon to church again, and heard drowsy Mr. Graves, and so to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill in bed, but grows better and better every day. Thence to Sir W. Batten's, and there staid awhile and heard how Sir R. Ford's daughter is married to a fellow without friends' consent, and the match carried on and made up at Will Griffin's, our doorkeeper's.
When sent up, you are invariably accompanied by an orderly it does not matter how well you are known who does not leave you until the door has closed behind you. When you leave, there is the same procedure and the very duration of your visit is entered and checked in the doorkeeper's book. I was admitted immediately.
"Well, Monsieur, what next?" said I in as scornful a tone as I could command. "Patience, Monsieur; you will see." There was a low, narrow door in the side of the hall, near the front. At the Count's bidding, an attendant opened this, and I was marched into a very small, bare room, the ceiling of which was scarce higher than my head. This apartment had evidently been designed as a doorkeeper's box.
Go and find me the dress of a dervish, but beware of saying it is for me." At a short distance from the country house, a convent of dervishes was situated, and the superior, or scheih, was the doorkeeper's friend. So by means of a false story made up on the spur of the moment, it was easy enough to get hold of a dervish's dress, which the prince at once put on, instead of his own.
I escorted my guest to the carriage, and I was agreeably surprised when I got back to find the doorkeeper's two charming daughters. He knew my tastes, and that when there were pretty girls in a house, the less I saw of him the better I was pleased.
There is a spiral staircase within one of its immense limbs; and, climbing steadily upward, lighted by a lantern which the doorkeeper's wife gave us, we had a bird's-eye view of Paris, much obscured by smoke or mist. Several interminable avenues shoot with painful directness right towards it.
By and by he said: "Oh, aye!" and lit his cigarette, but had not taken the second puff when the doorkeeper's feet sounded outside, at which sound he pinched the cigarette hurriedly by the neck, and looked around for somewhere to dump it.
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