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88 : I think the marshal will soon bring us Mr. Flatternot.


 * I can imagine no good from it, and, to be sure, I should be furious with regret to hand over Count Basil to the hands of a Russian lout, like Flatternot.


 * It will be in our will to take Flatternot or reject him.


 * Count, friend, let us go to our apartments, that our expected guests should await us half an hour and see that they have come to your highness.


 * For Heaven’s sake, don’t advise me that, if you do not wish to be a widow quickly.


 * But why?


 * Mr. Flatternot, as I see it, is a man of merit, and certainly, being a major, does not wish to wait in a captain’s anteroom; he will get furious and cut me up.


 * He dares not do this before the marshal.


 * Well, you see, madame, that to-day rank alone is not much respected, and people who value it highly are thought fools; and is Flatternot likely to contain himself for the marshal when