Where dost thou serve, Watkins ?" "In the stable, so please you." "Let our chamberlain bring thee into the household, as a yeoman of the night watch.

I like thy favour, and it is something to have one sober fellow in the house, although he is only such through the fear of death.
Attend, therefore, near our person; and thou shalt find sobriety a thriving virtue." Meantime a load of care and fear added to the distress of Sir John Ramorny's sick chamber.

His reflections, disordered as they were by the opiate, fell into great confusion when the Prince, in whose presence he had suppressed its effect by strong resistance, had left the apartment.
His consciousness, which he had possessed perfectly during the interview, began to be very much disturbed.

He felt a general sense that he had incurred a great danger, that he had rendered the Prince his enemy, and that he had betrayed to him a secret which might affect his own life.

In this state of mind and body, it was not strange that he should either dream, or else that his diseased organs should become subject to that species of phantasmagoria which is excited by the use of opium.