... her speech and ways,seemed more like a duenna, than the waiting-maid of a court beauty, and better fitted to guard a waywarddamsel than to aid her in such an escapade as we had in hand.She stood ... one bearing the remnants of a meal, stood against the walls. The middle of the floor was covered with a strip of coarse matting, on which a small table, a chair and foot-rest, and a couple of stools ... Marsac'sappointment! Ha! ha! Why, man ''Enough of it now!' I exclaimed. And I dare say I writhed on my seat. 'As far as I am concerned the jest is a stale one, sir, and...