With your majesty's most gracious permission the Count of
Carabas makes bold to present you with a rabbit.
KING (delighted).
A rabbit? Do you hear it, really, people? Ah, fate has become reconciled with me again! A rabbit?
HINZE (takes it out of his knapsack).
Here, great monarch!
KING.
Here—just hold the sceptre a moment, prince. (He feels the rabbit.) Fat! nice and fat! From the Count of ——
HINZE.
Carabas.