He then clanked into the inn parlour, and throwing himself into one chair with his feet upon another, he summoned the landlord up before him, and explained our needs in a tone and manner which should give him a due sense of our quality.
'Of your best, and at once,' quoth he.

'Have your largest double-couched chamber ready with your softest lavender-scented sheets, for we have had a weary ride and must rest.

And hark ye, landlord, no palming off your stale, musty goods as fresh, or of your washy French wines for the true Hainault vintage.

I would have you to understand that my friend here and I are men who meet with some consideration in the world, though we care not to speak our names to every underling.

Deserve well of us, therefore, or it may be the worse for you.' This speech, combined with my companion's haughty manner and fierce face, had such an effect upon the landlord that he straightway sent us in the breakfast which had been prepared for three officers of the Blues, who were waiting for it in the next apartment.