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have been ordered for the Green Box. It was a theatre ready-made. It was
square, with three sides built round, and a wall forming the fourth.
Against this wall was placed the Green Box, which they were able to draw
into the yard, owing to the height of the gate. A large wooden balcony,
roofed over, and supported on posts, on which the rooms of the first
story opened, ran round the three fronts of the interior façade of the
house, making two right angles. The windows of the ground floor made
boxes, the pavement of the court the pit, and the balcony the gallery.
The Green Box, reared against the wall, was thus in front of a theatre.
It was very like the Globe, where they played "Othello," "King Lear,"
and "The Tempest."
In a corner behind the Green Box was a stable.
Ursus had made his arrangements with the tavern keeper, Master Nicless,
who, owing to his respect for the law, would not admit the wolf without
charging him extra.
The placard, "Gwynplaine, the Laughing Man," taken from its nail in the
Green Box, was hung up close to the sign of the inn. The sitting-room of
the tavern had, as we have seen, an inside door which opened into the
court. By the side of the door was constructed off-hand, by means of an
empty barrel, a box for the money-taker, who was sometimes Fibi and
sometimes Vinos. This was managed much as at present. Pay and pass in.
Under the placard announcing the Laughing Man was a piece of wood,
painted white, hung on two nails, on which was written in charcoal in
large letters the title of Ursus's grand piece, "Chaos Vanquished."
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