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[Shaking his head.] No, I can't say that I do. Well, what did I promise?

You said you would take me up to a high mountain and show me all the glory of the world.

[With a slight start.] Did I promise you that, too?

Me too? Who else, pray?

[Indifferently.] No, no, I only meant did I promise to show you?

—all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.

That is a sort of figure of speech that I was in the habit of using once upon a time.

Only a figure of speech?

Yes, a schoolboy phrase—the sort of thing I used to say when I wanted to lure the neigh