Part 37 (1/2)
”Ah, the play-actor!” said he, with a gleam of his teeth and a toss of his curls, while his second hand, like Mr Rassendyll's, rested in the pocket of his coat
Mr Rassendyll hirain with him when Rupert called him a play-actor He was a little older now, and his temper more difficult to stir
”Yes, the play-actor,” he answered, sh”
”What part to-day? Isn't it the old one, the king with a pasteboard crown?” asked Rupert, sitting down on the table ”Faith, we shall do handsomely in Ruritania: you have a pasteboard crown, and I (huiven the other one a heavenly crown What a brave show! But perhaps I tell you news?”
”No, I knohat you've done”
”I take no credit It wasthan mine,” said Rupert carelessly ”However, there it is, and dead he is, and there's an end of it What's your business, play-actor?”
At the repetition of this last word, to her so erly to the chink and strained her ears to listen more sedulously And what did the count mean by the ”other one” and ”a heavenly crown”?
”Why not call ?” asked Rudolf
”They call you that in Strelsau?”
”Those that know I'm here”
”And they are--?”
”So an ars fly?”
”You've been waiting to see them lowered?”
”A man likes to have some notice taken of what he has done,” Rupert coet the your news? Would that be good for yourself?”
”Forgivehas two lives, it is but in nature that he should have two deaths”
”And when he has undergone the second?”
”I shall live at peace, my friend, on a certain source of incoht, defiant laugh ”In these days,” said he, ”even queens must be careful about their letters
We live in moral times”
”You don't share the responsibility for it,” said Rudolf, s
”I make my little protest But what's your business, play-actor? For I think you're rather tiresorave He advanced towards the table, and spoke in low, serious tones
”My lord, you're alone in this ue Bauer I encountered last night and broke his head”
”Ah, you did?”
”You have what you know of in your hands If you yield, on my honor I will save your life”