📔 Mistress of Mistresses

It is a nice point of disputation whether you did with tortoiselike slowness transambulate that lobby, so as in five hours to proceed but twenty paces […]

Devilish heads, five cubits in bigness from brow to chin, were carven in high relief along the five other walls: thirteen heads in all, very deformed and uglisome, laying out their tongues; and on the end of each tongue was stood a lamp brightly burning, and the eyes of the great faces were looking-glasses nicely cut up with facets to throw back the rays of the lamps, so that the whole banquet-room was lit with a brilliance of lamplight.

'I know my liripoop without coming here to learn it,' said Mandricard as the Duke began to move off.

And for the second time, and now strangelier still, for the hotter occasion that was now than in the council chamber for bloody rages, the moment passed.