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Graceful Excuse
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WILLIAM IV. seemed in a momentary dilemma one day, when, at table with
several officers, he ordered one of the waiters to take away that
marine there, pointing to an empty bottle. Your majesty! inquired a
colonel of marines, do you compare an empty bottle to a member of our
branch of the service?--Yes, replied the monarch, as if a sudden
thought had struck him; I mean to say it has done its duty once, and
is ready to do it again.
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