Chapter_1267

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Her next amusement was more fanciful;

She smiled at mad Suwarrow’s rhymes, who threw

Into a Russian couplet rather dull

The whole gazette of thousands whom he slew:

Her third was feminine enough to annul

The shudder which runs naturally through

Our veins, when things called Sovereigns think it best

To kill, and Generals turn it into jest.