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WHY JESUS WEPT 
 
SIR GRABSON J. 
 
Good !  Good !  No chance of heirs failing — ha ! 
But a word in your ear.  This morphia ? 
 
SIR HERPES Z. 
 
Not a sign of relapse, old friend, and never will be now.  
Sir Percy is as sound a man as lives in England — I took 
four other opinions. 
 
SIR GRABSON J. 
 
None as weighty as your own ! 
 
SIR HERPES Z. 
 
You are polite, very polite.  Where is Carruthers ? 
 
SIR GRABSON J. 
 
He is away to Windsor — the King (they beat their foreheads 
eightyseven times upon the ground) knights him to-day. 
 
SIR HERPES Z. 
 
I knew he had the O.M. and the F.Z.S. ; but this knight-
hood ? 
 
SIR GRABSON J. 
 
He has taken up political economy.  He will marry a 
duchess.  Greumoch, too, is doing well.  After the — ah — event 
we all deplored so, he entered the Benedictines at Fort Augus-
tus ; and to-morrow they install him as Lord Abbot.