But it was too late to draw back.
"Let it be as unwise," said I, "as it will--" "Or as the duke is," put in Gustave, with a knowing twinkle in his eye.
"Yet it is a plan as delightful--" "As the duchess is," said Gustave.
And so, for all the excellent reasons which may be collected from the foregoing conversation,--and if carefully tabulated they would, I am persuaded, prove as numerous as weighty,--I went..