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BUTLER. (going.)
Any other
Commands for me, Lieutenant General?

OCTAVIO.
See your white hairs! Recal that word!

BUTLER.
Farewell!

OCTAVIO.
What would you draw this good and gallant sword
In such a cause? Into a curse would you
Transform the gratitude which you have earn'd
By forty years' fidelity from Austria?

BUTLER. {laughing with bitterness.)
Gratitude from the house of Austria.
(he is going.)
OCTAVIO. (permits him to go as far as the door,
then calls after him.)
Butler!

BUTLER.
What wish you?

OCTAVIO.
How was't with the Count?

BUTLER.
Count? what?

OCTAVIO. (coldly,)
The title that you wish'd I mean.

BUTLER. (starts in sudden passiwn.)
Hell and damnation!

OCTAVIO. (coldly.)
You petition'd for it —
And your petition was repell'd—Was it so?

BUTLER.