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man to dine, rather envying him his good 

 luck in having a dinner to go to. 



Our quarters, when found, were not 

 perhaps as luxurious as those which we had 

 pictured, thanks to the force of contrast, when 

 bivouacking on the bare hillside ; but though 

 our windows only contained a couple of panes 

 apiece, and the deficiencies m glass were 

 hardly made up in boards ; though the floor 

 was too filthy to tread on, and the shelf 

 which formed our bedstead somewhat of the 

 narrowest, we were consoled by the thought 

 that the roof was weatherproof, and there 

 was a fireplace if only we could collect 

 fuel. 



For a long time the crowd released from 

 attendance on the prmce thronged us to such 

 an extent that we could do nothing more 

 than submit to sit still and be stared at ; but 

 at last a chans^e came, and with it a messagfe 

 that the prince, having dmed, felt rather un- 



