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And things being as they are, of course they could not be otherwise. Come despatch! And so saying the venerable monarch wrapped his mantle round his head and struck an heroic attitude. 'What are you waiting for? Let him have it! whispered Silvia at Yellow-cap's elbow.
Yellow-cap felt rather bewildered; but he was glad to find that he himself was not included in the metrical system. Some error in either rhyme or rhythm would, he felt sure, have been the consequence. 'Let me order you a pipe and tankard, continued Gyp, ringing the bell. Somewhat to Yellow-cap's surprise Silvia appeared at the door in answer to the summons.
At this question there rose in Yellow-cap's mind the picture of a little square room, with bright walls and clean sanded floor; a churn in one corner, and a brightly polished tin pan upon the dresser in place of a looking-glass. In this room stood a lovely young girl, with tears in her eyes, but a smile dimpling her rosy cheeks.
At all events the blade of the axe came down upon the bare boards and buried itself six inches deep in the wood, and no dwarf was there, but only the glittering half of a spade guinea, strung on a broken thread of silk. This the Headsman placed in Yellow-cap's hand, and he hid it in his bosom. 'He lives still! said Silvia, smiling again.
He promised me this cap, and now the cap is mine. I have paid for it all I had in the world, and now I mean to get my profit out of it. You have waited for me: I have never waited for you; for I could succeed without you; but, without me, you would be nothing! 'Hear! hear! exclaimed the Brethren in chorus, seeming much pleased with Yellow-cap's eloquence.
Faster and wilder moved the dance, thicker and yellower whirled the smoke-wreaths, and the six faces sped dizzily round the table, until it seemed to Yellow-cap as if he were encircled by a great ring of face, with one broad nose, one endless grinning mouth, and a single leering eye in the forehead. By and by the room began to spin round also such, at least, was Yellow-cap's impression.
King Ormund took the crown from his brow and handed it to the Archbishop, who put it on Yellow-cap's head, over the yellow cap. Then all the courtiers round about murmured their congratulations, the audience that filled the theatre shouted 'Hooray! and 'Encore! the ex-King clapped him on the shoulder and said, 'Bless you, my boy! and Silvia whispered in his ear, 'Now you are King!
'It certainly is different from a tin pan, thought he as he went back to his chair at the head of the table. 'Nothing more than an optical illusion, said Gyp, filling Yellow-cap's pipe from his own tobacco-pouch, and handing it to him courteously. 'There is no harm in it none at all. 'Especially as it makes you our Head, observed Ruba. 'I move we suspend the rules, said Dubb.
Round and round it spun like a teetotum, moving as fast as the dancers did, but in the opposite direction. The smoke, driven together by these contrary motions, was whirled into a sort of hollow dome over Yellow-cap's head.
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