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for you will certainly get yourself into trouble . '' `` Your excellency , '' cried a loud voice outside , at this moment -- `` your excellency , are you not coming at all ? '' The door of the anteroom was violently thrust open , and the pipe-master appeared on the threshold . `` It is past eight o'clock , '' he exclaimed , `` and -- '' He paused on perceiving the two gentlemen , and was about to retire very quickly . `` Come here , pipe-master , '' exclaimed Blucher , `` come here and look at me . Now tell me , pipe-master , have you been a chatterbox , after all , and told these two gentlemen what was the object of our airing ? '' `` No , your excellency ; I have not uttered a word about it to any one , '' replied the pipe-master , solemnly .