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He's really going?

Seems so, I admit.

[coming].

He's going, madam!

We're aware of it!

A most unfortunate punctilio. He'll keep his word; his stubbornness I know. In the Gazette he'll put us all by name; My love will figure under leaded headings, With jilts, and twins, and countermanded weddings. Listen; I tell you, if it weren't for shame, I would propose an armistice, a truce—

You think he would be willing?

I deduce The fact from certain signs, which indicate That his tall talk about his Amor's News Was uttered in a far from sober state.