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Updated: July 29, 2025
I marvelled much in silence for I had been sharply reproved for some observation I had unwittingly made on the littleness and crookedness of a dark, corner-chimneyed nook shown us for the banqueting-room; and I had fallen into complete disgrace for having called the winding staircases, leading to the turret-chambers, back stairs.
The courtiers were, for example, in the Great Hall, after having left the banqueting-room, awaiting the appearance of a splendid masque, which was the expected entertainment of this evening, when the Queen interrupted a wild career of wit which the Earl of Leicester was running against Lord Willoughby, Raleigh, and some other courtiers, by saying, "We will impeach you of high treason, my lord, if you proceed in this attempt to slay us with laughter.
The "mousetraps" end on the north at the quay, on the east at the headquarters of the Municipal Guard, on the west at the courtyard of the Conciergerie, and on the south they adjoin a large vaulted hall, formerly, no doubt, the banqueting-room, but at present disused.
When, followed by Paphnutius, Thais entered the banqueting-room, the guests were already, for the most part, assembled, and reclining on their couches before the horseshoe table, which was covered with glittering vessels. In the centre of the table stood a silver basin, surmounted by four figures of satyrs, who poured out from wine-skins on the boiled fish a kind of pickle in which they floated.
The bow has long been unbent, the royal mother and child are together again, the music of the tambourine is mute. In the Banqueting-room there are great battle-pieces by land and sea from Tournay to Trafalgar, like a memory of the Hall of Battles at Versailles. The Chapel Royal, where the Queen was made a wife, has ceased in a measure to be a royal place of worship.
"And now, my bird of Paradise," said I, as we sat alone in the apartment I had fitted up as the banqueting-room, and on which, though small in its proportions, I had lavished all the love of luxury and of show which made one of my most prevailing weaknesses, "and now how has time passed with you since we parted?" "Need you ask, Morton?
"Thou art skilful on the lute, my mistress says." "I can play the lute," he answered, "but what of that? Will she pipe me an answer back?" "Nay, Master Manners, listen. Thou art to be a musician for the once, and must join the minstrels in the gallery." "In the banqueting-room! Then I must seek a fresh disguise," he said.
From this antechamber opened a banqueting-room of moderate size, but brilliant enough to dazzle the eyes of the spectator with the richness of its furniture.
'Curs! said Melmotte almost aloud. 'They neither of them will be there. If any evil can be done to me by treachery and desertion, they will do it. Then it occurred to him to think whether the Grendall article had been worth all the money that he had paid for it. 'Curs! he said again. He walked down into the hall, and through the banqueting-room, and stood at the place where he himself had sat.
It happened that the little keepsake I had found for Francine consisted of wheat-ears in pearls and gold, adapted for brooch and eardrops; so I only had to drop them in beside the chickens and the present was appropriate and complete. I cannot tell of the effect as Mary Ashburleigh swept into that splendid banqueting-room, one long pyramid of velvet pierced with webbed interstices of light.
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