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A NEOPHYTE IN DIPLOMACY--DIPLOMATIC INTRODUCTION--A.
CALCULATION--A SHIPMENT OF OPINIONS--HOW TO CHOOSE AN INVOICE, WITH AN ASSORTMENT.
I now began seriously to think of sailing for Leaplow; for, I confess, I was heartily tired of being thought the governor of His Royal Highness Prince Bob, and pined to be restored once more to my proper place in society.

I was the more incited to make the change by the representations of the brigadier, who assured me that it was sufficient to come from foreign parts to be esteemed a nobleman in Leaplow, and that I need not apprehend in his country any of the ill-treatment I had received in the one in which I now was.

After talking over the matter, therefore, in a familiar way, we determined to repair at once to the Leaplow legation, in order to ask for our passports, and to offer, at the same time, to carry any dispatches that Judge People's Friend might have prepared for his government--it being the custom of the Leaplowers to trust to these godsends in carrying on their diplomatic correspondence.
We found the judge in undress, and a very different figure he cut, certainly, from that which he made when I saw him the previous night at court.

Then he was all queue; now he was all bob.