BARON. Amazing insensibility! And can you hold your head erect while
you acknowledge perfidy?

COUNT. My dear baron,--if every man, who deserves to have a charge
such as this brought against him, was not permitted to look up--it is a
doubt whom we might not meet crawling on all fours. [he accidently
taps the Baron's shoulder.]

BARON [starts--recollects himself--then in a faultering voice].
Yet--nevertheless-the act is so atrocious--

COUNT. But nothing new.

BARON [faintly]. Yes--I hope--I hope it is new.

COUNT. What, did you never meet with such a thing before?

BARON [agitated]. If I have--I pronounced the man who so offended--a
villain.

COUNT. You are singularly scrupulous. I question if the man thought
himself so.

BARON. Yes he did.

COUNT. How do you know?

BARON [hesitating]. I have heard him say so.

COUNT. But he ate, drank, and slept, I suppose?