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THE ATTACHe.
The orange-trees?
METTERNICH.
My own idea. They'll bring All they can find. Under each leafy ball Two couples will be seated, starved and laughing.
THE ATTACHe.
Supper in short at separate orange-trees?
Splendid.
METTERNICH.
Why, yes.--And as for grave affairs--
[_To a_ LACKEY.]
Tell them to play no more Slavonic dances--
[_To the_ ATTACHe.]
I do not put them off. Not I. I leave
Ere supper-time to meet the Hospodars-- They are awaiting me--
[_To a_ LACKEY.]
Those wreaths are skimpy.
My hobby's organizing b.a.l.l.s like this; And when the revelry is at its highest Back to the everlasting Eastern Question!
I love to rule a people and a ball: The Arbiter of Europe--
THE ATTACHe.
And its elegance!
GENTZ.
_Arbiter Elegantiarum!_
METTERNICH.
Ah, You're talking Latin; you've been drinking?
GENTZ.
Rum.
METTERNICH.
f.a.n.n.y has kept you very late at table; Oh, this _liaison!_ you're as good as lost.
GENTZ.
What? I and f.a.n.n.y? Off.
METTERNICH.
What?
GENTZ.
Off.
METTERNICH.
[_Seeing the Prefect of Police._]
Sedlinzky.
SEDLINZKY.
One word.
GENTZ.
[_To_ METTERNICH.]
It's off.
[_To a_ DOMINO.]
'Twas wrong to bring you, f.a.n.n.y.
If they discovered you! What an imprudence!
A public dancer!
f.a.n.n.y.
Oh, I'll dance discreetly.
GENTZ.
They'll find you out. For heaven's sake be clumsy.
METTERNICH.
A plot?
