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THE EMPEROR.
And ladies, coming late, Found this excuse quite natural:--"Oh, Sire, We only stopped to kiss the sentinel!"
THE DUKE.
You loved me then.
THE EMPEROR.
I love you now.
THE DUKE.
Then prove it!
THE EMPEROR.
My Franz! my grandson!
THE DUKE.
Is it true the King Would simply disappear if I appeared?
THE EMPEROR.
Well--
THE DUKE.
Is it true?
THE EMPEROR.
I--
THE DUKE.
Don't tell lies!
THE EMPEROR.
Perhaps!
THE DUKE.
I love you!
THE EMPEROR.
Yes; if you appeared alone, Without a drum, upon the bridge at Stra.s.sburg, The King would vanish.
THE DUKE.
I adore you, Grandad!
THE EMPEROR.
I'm stifled!
THE DUKE.
No.
THE EMPEROR.
I should have held my tongue.
THE DUKE.
Besides, the climate of Vienna's bad: I'm ordered Paris--
THE EMPEROR.
Really?
THE DUKE.
For my cough.
If I'm to spend a season there, of course I can't stop anywhere but at the Louvre.
THE EMPEROR.
Indeed!
THE DUKE.
And if you liked--
THE EMPEROR.
They've often begged us To wink at your escaping--
THE DUKE.
Wink at once!
THE EMPEROR.
Oh, for all me--
