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Desiderius did not require any further enlightenment on that point . He thought he understood all quite well . * * * * * Mistress Boris meanwhile had a fine job at her house . `` He was a fool who conceived the idea of ordering a banquet for an indefinite time : -- not to know whether he , for whom one must wait , will come at one , at two , at three , -- in the evening , or after midnight . '' Twenty times she ran out to the door to see whether he was coming already or not . Every sound of carriage wheels , every dog-bark enticed her out into the road , from whence she returned each time more furious , pouring forth invectives over the spoiling of all her dishes . `` Perhaps that gypsy girl again !