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Rh laugh might, perhaps, be rather forced; for, to be candid in our confessions, the deputation had been arranged by himself, and the very speech which the Duke of Buckingham had just mouthed with equal powers of memory and mimicry, had been the joint production of himself and the mayor, the latter having only learnt by heart what the former had concocted. However, as the King laughed, it was his duty, as a loyal subject, to laugh too; and as for his Grace of Buckingham—intending him, as he did, for his son-in-law—he was for the present privileged. All depends upon circumstances—anger as much as any thing else. Interest is your only true cosmetic for smoothing the brow.