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"Well, but what did you buy this , and handing her husband a cup of coffee

"One goes for a walk, one looks in a shop, and they ask you to buy

'_Erlaucht, Durchlaucht?_' Directly they say '_Durchlaucht_,' I

can't hold out I lose ten thalers"

"It's simply from boredom," said the princess

"Of course it is Such boredom, my dear, that one doesn't knohat to do with oneself"

"How can you be bored, prince? There's so enyevna

"But I know everything that's interesting: the plues I know I know everything"

"No, you may say what you like, prince, there's the interest of

their institutions," said the colonel

"But what is there interesting about it? They're all as pleased

as brass halfpence They've conquered everybody, and why am I

to be pleased at that? I haven't conquered anyone; and I'ed to take off et up and dress at once, and go to the dining rooet up in no

haste, you get cross, gruain

You've tis over, and no hurry"

"But tiet that," said the colonel

"Tiive a