“I think three weeks afford ample space,” said Duke Deodonato.
“Three weeks, sir?”
“For every man over twenty-one years of age in this Duchy to find himself a wife.”
“Your Highness,” observed Dr. Fusbius with deference, “will consider that between an abstract proposition and a practical measure—”
“There is to the logical mind no stopping-place,” interrupted Duke Deodonato.
“But, sir,” cried the President, “imagine the consternation which this—!”
“Let it be gazetted to-night,” said Duke Deodonato.
“I would venture,” said the President, “to remind your Highness that you are yourself a bachelor.”
“Laws,” said Duke Deodonato, “do not bind the Crown unless the Crown is expressly mentioned.”
“True, sir; but I humbly conceive that it would be pessimi exempli—”