[Count Bunker by J. Storer Clouston]@TWC D-Link bookCount Bunker CHAPTER VI 4/8
Of course, there can be no doubt about it.
You, Baron, must play the part of peer, I of friend." The Baron gasped. "Impossible!" "Quite simple, my dear fellow." "You--you don't mean so ?" "I do indeed." "Bot I shall not do it so vell as you." "A hundred times better." "Bot vy did you not say so before ?" "Tulliwuddle might not have agreed with me." "Bot vould he like it now ?" "It is not what he likes that we should consider, it's what is good for his interests." "Bot if I should fail ?" "He will be no worse off than before.
Left to himself, he certainly won't marry the lady.
You give him his only chance." "Bot more zan you vould, really and truthfully ?" "My dear Baron, you are admitted by all to be an ideal German nobleman. Therefore you will certainly make an ideal British peer.
You have the true Grand-Seigneur air.
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