Three chairs were speedily arranged between the table and wall, and on these I lay and tried to sleep.

But the very chairs were populous, as I had found below, and sleep was impossible.

Moreover, soon after eleven, a soldier came into the room, to arrange about his breakfast with one of the maidens in the house.

He had heard me order fresh butter for six o'clock, and he was anxious to know, whether, by breakfasting at five o'clock, he could get my butter.

The chairs which formed my bed were under the lee of the table, so that the figure recumbent on them was invisible, and the gallant soldier, under the impression that there was no one in the room, enforced his arguments by other than conventional means.