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Rh for the marshal to find an instructor for our son, we would lose through him a competent tutor who would come into the room and give us our due at once by calling me and my husband, votre altesse!


 * Why is the marshal at your house?


 * I came here on the invitation of the marshal, who is zealous for the advantage of noblemen; but now I shall not consent for anything in the world to be the instructor of a boy whose parents are infected entirely by fancies about rank.

(to Count and Countess): Your humble servant! In advance, do not expect me again.


 * As you wish.


 * Countess, let us go to our apartments. (Exeunt Count and Countesses.)


 * Queer people! Tell me, what guides their thoughts and deeds?


 * What guides them? Silly pride.