the little engraver betrayed no particular discomfort under this basilisk stare and went on telling me about the response when he had published the bound edition of the encyclopedia -- the king had somehow happened to see the plates of the `` womb '' section and had ordered those pages to be torn out of the book , the ignorant german blatherskite ! -but when the waiter came to take his order , he ordered both a very expensive wine and a large bottle of good whisky .