BLUMENBERG (to SENDEN).
He is a vulgar person, but he is useful! Now that we are alone, listen! The other day when you brought me to call here, I begged the Colonel just to write down his ideas on the questions of the day.
SENDEN.
Yes, alas! You piled on the flattery much too thick, but the old gentleman did, nevertheless, at last take fire.
BLUMENBERG.
We begged him to read to us what he had written; he read it to us, we praised it.
SENDEN.
It was very tiresome all the same.
BLUMENBERG.
I begged it of him for our paper.