"'Guarantees! Who minds or keeps guarantees in this age?
Has not France guaranteed the Pragmatic Sanction; has not England?
Why don't you all fly to the Queen's succor ?'"-- Robinson, inclined to pout, if he durst, intimates that perhaps there will be succorers one day yet.
KING.

"'And pray, Monsieur, who are they ?' ROBINSON.

"'Hm, hm, your Majesty....

Russia, for example, which Power with reference to Turkey--' KING.

"'Good, Sir, good (BEAU, MONSIEUR, BEAU), the Russians! It is not proper to explain myself; but I have means for the Russians' [a Swedish War just coming upon Russia, to keep its hand in use; so diligent have the French been in that quarter!].
ROBINSON (with some emphasis, as a Britannic gentleman).