A host of papers on it.

D'O. [Coming forward.] Here they are.

[To Cha.] I, sir, was minister and much beside

Of the late monarch; to say little, him

I served: on you I have, to say e'en less.

No claim. This case contains those papers: with them

I tender you my office.

Vic. [Hastily.] Keep him, Charles!

There's reason for it—many reasons: you

Distrust him, nor are so far-wrong there,—but