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The windows were all still ablaze with light, and the bar and the tap-room were uproarious with fun. Evidently the Clan Scott had been drinking the health of the duke and duchess until they had become "Glorious! O'er all the ills of life victorious!" The duke slipped in at the private entrance and gained his own apartment, where he found his valet engaged in packing his valise.
"Well, give me my change, will yer?" she said impatiently to the landlord. "I can't stan' here all night." He gave it to her, and she went out showering reckless good-nights, to which there was little response. The door had no sooner closed upon her than every one in the tap-room pressed round the bar in a close gathering of heads and tongues.
"Perhaps," replied Elsa, under her breath. "Then Andor came into the tap-room. With soft words and insinuating promises he got me to tell him what had happened. I didn't want to at first I mistrusted him because of what had happened at the banquet I knew that he hated me because of you." "It is not true," broke in Andor involuntarily.
To be sure, the men seemed to spend an extravagant amount of their time in the tap-room of the inn, which happened to be immediately beneath my sitting-room. Hour after hour the sound of their muffled conversation ascended to me through the planching, as I sat and studied Dumas, I think.
It was not surprising that he had been tricked by this devil's own genius. He recalled his admiration, his wonder over the man's artfulness; he groaned as he thought of the pride he had felt in being accorded the privilege of helping him! Sitting glumly in a corner of the tap-room, watching but not listening to the spouting Mr. Sprouse.
Seeing Béla and Andor there, he asked if anything was wanted. "No, no," said Béla impatiently, "nothing more to-night. Andor and I are going directly." The narrow hatchet-face once more disappeared behind the door. Klara's voice was heard to ask: "Who is in the tap-room, father?"
'What are all these infernal lazy drawers here for if you are to descend to menial offices? Handing the widow to a chair he clanked away into the tap-room, where we heard him swearing at the men-servants, and cursing them for a droning set of rascals who had taken advantage of the angelic goodness of their mistress and her incomparable sweetness of temper.
The two knights rode away at once with the letter. The troop slept all the afternoon, and after supper we felt pretty fresh and fine, especially our little group of young Domremians. We had the comfortable tap-room of the village inn to ourselves, and for the first time in ten unspeakably long days were exempt from bodings and terrors and hardships and fatiguing labors.
Nick stepped down from the tap-room door. His ears were tingling with the sound: "I'm off hot-foot with the news to Will's." "Hot-foot with the news to Will's"? To "Will's"? "Will" who? The man was a player, by his air. Nick hurriedly looked around. Carew's wild eyes were frozen upon the dice. The bandy-legged man was drinking at a table near the door.
When we had the pleasure to spend an hour or two together after the play, the last time I was in London, I ventured to make a few remarks on theatrical subjects that seemed to meet with your approbation; and as, in the midst of so much hiliarity as was raging round us in the tap-room of the Ducrow's Head, you may have forgotten the purport of my observations, I will repeat them here.
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