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The door of a flat across the passage was quietly opened. Mr. Peter Ruff, in a neat black smoking suit and slippers, and holding a pipe in his hand, looked out. "Excuse me, gentlemen," he said, "but I do not think that Mr. Cawdor is in. He went out early this evening, and I have not heard him return." The two men turned away. "We are much obliged to you, sir," Mr. Marnstam said.
Vincent Cawdor remarked, cheerfully, "you're having a late sitting, eh?" "We've been waiting for you, you fool!" Rounceby answered. "What on earth are you thinking about, bringing a crowd like this about with you, eh?" Cawdor smiled, reassuringly. "Don't you worry," he said, in a lower tone. "I know my way in and out of the ropes here better than you can teach me.
The money he is going to part with is secret service money." The two men were beginning to be more reassured. Rounceby slowly produced a roll of oilskin from his pocket. "He'll look at them as he sits there," he insisted. "There must be no copying or making notes, mind." Cawdor smiled in a superior fashion.
She admired Henderson, without thinking any too well of the world in general, and she admired him for the qualities that were most conformable to his inclination. It was no case of hero-worship, to be sure, nor for tragedy; but then what a satisfaction it must be to sweet Lady Macbeth, coiled up on her sofa, to feel that the thane of Cawdor has some nerve!
The general was not a little startled to find himself known by such creatures; but how much more, when the second of them followed up that salute by giving him the title of thane of Cawdor, to which honour he had no pretensions; and again the third bid him "All hail! king that shalt be hereafter!"
The seventh king of Scotland after Duff, with an interval of sixty-eight years, was Macbeth. The historian begins his tale of witchcraft, towards the end of the reign of Duncan, his predecessor, with observing, "Shortly after happened a strange and uncouth wonder, which afterward was the cause of much trouble in the realm of Scotland. The second of them said, Hail, Macbeth, thane of Cawdor.
While they were crossing a lonely heath, they saw three bearded women, sisters, hand in hand, withered in appearance and wild in their attire. "Speak, who are you?" demanded Macbeth. "Hail, Macbeth, chieftain of Glamis," said the first woman. "Hail, Macbeth, chieftain of Cawdor," said the second woman. "Hail, Macbeth, King that is to be," said the third woman.
He then parodied the 'All-hail' of the witches to Macbeth, addressing himself to me. I had purchased some land called Dalblair; and, as in Scotland it is customary to distinguish landed men by the name of their estates, I had thus two titles, Dalblair and Young Auchinleck. So my friend, in imitation of All hail Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! condescended to amuse himself with uttering
Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, formerly had a secret chamber known as "Hell Hole." It has, however, been altered. The "Clough Inn," Chard, Somersetshire, is said by tradition to have possessed three secret rooms! Cawdor Castle, Nairnshire a hiding-place formerly in "the tower." Bramhall Hall, Cheshire two secret recesses were discovered not long ago during alterations.
In this connection Elton's friendship and the prophecy made to Selma as to his political future occurred to him and forbade an invidious supposition. "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and thou shalt be what thou art promised!" Lyons left Selma with the conviction that he would find Elton to be mainly responsible for what had taken place.
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