I Believe So, Said I. - Then I'll Go To The Duke, By Heaven!
With
all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.
-
- And there you are wrong again, replied I. - A heart at ease,
Yorick, flies into no extremes - 'tis ever on its centre. - Well!
well! cried I, as the coachman turn'd in at the gates, I find I
shall do very well: and by the time he had wheel'd round the
court, and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the
better for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a
victim to justice, who was to part with life upon the top most, -
nor did I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do
when I fly up, Eliza! to thee to meet it.
As I entered the door of the saloon I was met by a person, who
possibly might be the maitre d'hotel, but had more the air of one
of the under secretaries, who told me the Duc de C- was busy. - I am
utterly ignorant, said I, of the forms of obtaining an audience,
being an absolute stranger, and what is worse in the present
conjuncture of affairs, being an Englishman too. - He replied, that
did not increase the difficulty. - I made him a slight bow, and told
him, I had something of importance to say to Monsieur le Duc. The
secretary look'd towards the stairs, as if he was about to leave me
to carry up this account to some one.
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