15/48 This is my servant, I tell you." "Yes, sir, but--but--" "Well ?" "We were roused--there was a noise--a noise of men fighting." "There would have been no noise," said Wogan, triumphantly, "if you had prepared a bed for my servant. He would not have crept into my cupboard to sleep off his drunkenness." "But, sir, there was a bed." "You should have seen that he was carried to it. As it is, here have I been driven to beat him and to lose my night's rest in consequence. I do not think that your inn is well managed." Wogan expressed his indignation with so majestic an air that the landlord was soon apologising for having disturbed a gentleman in the proper exercise of belabouring his valet. |