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 Why, I seem'd to think so too.

What do I care for that? Where there stand other names mine can stand too.

Before supper there was a certain proviso therein, or short clause, concerning our duties to the Emperor.

For shame, for shame! Bethink you. What is the main business here? The question now is, whether we shall keep our General, or let him retire. One must not take these things too nicely, and over-scrupulously.

Did the Duke make any of these provisos when he gave you your regiment?

Or when he gave you the office of army-purveyancer, which brings you in yearly a thousand pistoles!

He is a rascal who makes us out to be rogues. If there be any one that wants satisfaction, let him say so,—I am his man.

Softly, softly? 'Twas but a word or two.

Till to-morrow therefore!