I am serious.

What is it to you or to the people, who secures this public mortgage, so long as the money is forthcoming?
I desire to purchase at face value the twenty certificates." "As a representative of England ?" The diplomat smiled.

The king's political ignorance was well known.

"As a representative of England, Sire, I could not purchase the stubs from which these certificates are cut.

And then, as I remarked, I am an unfettered agent of self.