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reasonably incensed on the other; and he advanced to the table in a
continued ejaculation of inarticulate grunts--a sort of equivocal
language in which he designed to convey alike his approbation of supper
and displeasure at the interruption.

Bertram took his seat with the rest of the party; but sought an early
opportunity of withdrawing himself from a scene of convivial merriment,
in which his previous fatigues had by this time wholly disqualified him
for sharing with any cordiality. Wearily he followed the person who
conducted him to his bedchamber: but, spite of his sleepiness and
exhaustion, he was roused to a slight shock of something like terror,
by a little incident which occurred on the way:--in one of the
galleries, through which they passed, a man was standing at the further
end: he was apparently in the act of admitting himself into a bedroom:
but something, which embarrassed him about the lock or the key,
detained him until they advanced near enough to throw the light of a
candle full upon his profile. It was the profile of a face tanned into
a gypsey complexion, and for so young a face--weather-beaten, thin, and
wasted; but otherwise of Grecian beauty of outline; and, as far as
could be judged from so hasty and oblique a glance, remarkably
expressive and dignified. The man did not look round or take any other
notice of them, as they advanced: and the attendant either had not, or
affected not to have, any knowledge of his person: but Bertram felt a
bewildering remembrance, as if suddenly snatched and recovered from a
dream, of the same features seen under circumstances of some profounder
interest. He labored anxiously to recollect in what situation and when;
but the events of the last few days had so agitated and bewildered his
mind, that he labored in vain; and, the more he thought, the more he
entangled himself in a web of perplexity. From this and all other
perplexities, however, he was speedily liberated by the sound sleep
which seized him the moment he had laid his head on the pillow.

FOOTNOTES TO "CHAPTER VI.":

[Footnote 1: A joke upon an Irish accentuation of Mr. Croker's, the
Secretary to the Admiralty. In his _Talavera_ he accentuated the word
Ally _Hibernice_, with the accent on the first syllable. On which Mr.
Southey playfully called him _Ally Croaker_.]

[Footnote 2: A joke borrowed from ----, by whom it was applied to a
better man than himself; one of the most extraordinary men of g