But this night my father would be with the Duke, and I should see all.

For high or low there was none in the empty Red Tower to hinder or forbid.
As I waited, thrilling with expectation, I heard beneath me the quickening pulse-beat of the town.

The watch hurried here and there, hectoring, threatening, and commanding.

But, in spite of all, men gathered as soon as their backs were turned in the alleys and street openings.

Clusters of heads showed black for a moment in some darksome entry, cried "U-g-g-hh!" with a hateful sound, and vanished ere the steel-clad veterans of the Duke's guard could come upon them.