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Two days later an order came to Satory to send all prisoners to Versailles, and the kind-hearted captain was forced to return Count Orsi to the column of his fellow-prisoners. At Versailles they were shut up in the wine-cellars of the palace, forty-five feet underground. The prisoners confined there were the very dregs and scum of the insurrection.
'An ostentatious, bustling, ill-bred fellow, muttered Clodius to himself, as he sauntered slowly away. 'He thinks with his feasts and his wine-cellars to make us forget that he is the son of a freedman and so we will, when we do him the honour of winning his money; these rich plebeians are a harvest for us spendthrift nobles.
Why did you not say to me that I was not agreeable? It would have simplified everything." "I am sorry," she said contritely. When he spoke like this he wasn't so unlovable. "People say," he went on, "that I spend most of my time in my wine-cellars. Well," defiantly, "what else is there for me to do? I am alone." Max came within his range of vision. "Take him away, I tell you!"
The soldiers, with their customary promptitude, without receiving any orders, approached their guns which were in horizontal position, pointing through the loopholes. Again the visitors walked in single file, going down into cavernous spaces that had been the old wine-cellars of former houses. The officers had taken up their abode in these dens, utilizing all the residue of the ruins.
The Castle was used as a stable, and the paintings and statuary served as targets for the rollicking soldiers who had exploited the wine-cellars. The vast amount of specie which it was reported the Elector possessed, was missing the strongboxes were empty. Soldiers were set to work digging all about the house for signs of hidden treasure, but none was found.
When the day comes that I have shown will come, suppose you that there will be any midnight brawls? any shivering mendicants, kicked off from the marble steps? any droves of unwashed, uncombed, unfed children? any blasphemers in the street? any staggering past of inebriates? No! No wine-cellars. No lager-beer saloons. No distilleries where they make the XXX. No bloated cheeks. No blood-shot eyes.
'An additional reason for supping with him while the sesterces last. Next year, Diomed, we must find another Glaucus. 'He is fond of the dice, too, I hear. 'He is fond of every pleasure; and while he likes the pleasure of giving suppers, we are all fond of him. 'Ha, ha, Clodius, that is well said! Have you ever seen my wine-cellars, by-the-by? 'I think not, my good Diomed.
The room within which they found themselves proved to be the shop of an undertaker; but an open trap-door, in a corner of the floor near the entrance, looked down upon a long range of wine-cellars, whose depths the occasional sound of bursting bottles proclaimed to be well stored with their appropriate contents.
No doubt the young folk of our big cities promise themselves a merry time for six weeks when they have got power, the shops, the wardrobes and the wine-cellars into their hands. For the leaders, it may last a little longer than for the rank-and-file.
The whole town teemed with itinerant musicians, whose violent strains would sometimes burst from the very ground under your feet, as it appeared, issuing as they did from the open mouths of beer and wine-cellars. Quiet coffee-houses there were, in which grave citizens smoked and read; and admirable concerts in saloons, and in the open air.
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