--Mrs. Czeska. Have you heard--the world is upside down,
Jozwowicz!
Doctor.--What is it, Your Highness?
Prince.--And perhaps you will also become a minister.
Doctor.--It may be.
Prince.--Did you hear? And do you think that I will call you "Your
Excellency"?
Doctor.--It would be proper.
Prince.--Jozwowicz, do you wish to give me a stroke of apoplexy?
Doctor.--Be calm, Your Highness. My Excellency will always take care
of your Grace's bile.
Prince.--It is true. The irritation hurts me. What, Jozwowicz--does it
hurt me?
Doctor.--Yes, it excites the bile, but it gives you an appetite. (He
approaches with George.)
Stella.--What were you talking about?
Doctor.--I have been listening to George. Horrible! Dreadful! George
made a mistake by coming into the world two hundred years too late.
Bayards are not appreciated nowadays.
Czeska.--Providence is above all.
Drahomir.--I believe it also.
Doctor.--Were I a mathematician, without contradicting you I would say
that, as in many cases we do not know what X equals, we must take care
of ourselves.
Prince.--What are you saying?
Stella.--Doctor, pray do not talk so sceptically, or there will be a
war--not with papa, but with me.
Doctor.--My scepticism is ended where your words begin, therefore I
surrender.
Stella.--How gallant--the member of parliament.
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