Count, you will leave us.

Baron Von Ragastein, be seated." "Sir Everard Dominey, at your service, Majesty," Dominey replied, as he took the chair to which his august host pointed.
"Thorough in all things, I see," the latter observed.

"Sit there and be at your ease.

Good reports have reached me of your work in Africa." "I did my best to execute your Majesty's will," Dominey ventured.
"You did so well," the Kaiser pronounced, "that my counsellors were unanimous in advising your withdrawal to what will shortly become the great centre of interest.

From the moment of receiving our commands you appear to have displayed initiative.