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But the panel on which Victor Lee was painted was firmly fixed in the wainscoting of the apartment , of which it made a part , and the Colonel satisfied himself that it could not have been used for the purpose which he had suspected . He next aroused his faithful squire , Wildrake , who , notwithstanding his deep share of the `` blessedness of sleep , '' had scarce even yet got rid of the effects of the grace-cup of the preceding evening . `` It was the reward , '' according to his own view of the matter , `` of his temperance ; one single draught having made him sleep more late and more sound than a matter of half-a-dozen , or from thence to a dozen pulls , would have done , when he was guilty of the enormity of rere-suppers , -LSB- Footnote : Rere-suppers -LRB- _ quasi arriere _ -RRB- belonged to a species of luxury introduced in the jolly days of King James 's extravagance , and continued through the subsequent reign . The supper took place at an early hour , six or seven o'clock at latest -- the rere-supper was a postliminary banquet , a _ hors d'oeuvre _ , which made its appearance at ten or eleven , and served as an apology for prolonging the entertainment till midnight . -RSB- and of drinking deep after them . '' `` Had your temperate draught , '' said Everard , `` been but a thought more strongly seasoned , Wildrake , thou hadst slept so sound that the last trump only could have waked thee . '' `` And then , '' answered Wildrake , `` I should have waked with a headache , Mark ; for I see my modest sip has not exempted me from that epilogue .