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` Yes , just recently . ' ` Did you ever hear them toasting _ Der Tag _ ? My friend , it has arrived . -- Durwent , old boy , if you will excuse me , I think I shall go to town at noon . If my old bones are n't lying , the thing which a few of us fossils have been preaching to deaf ears has come to pass , and there may be a job for a belivered old devil like me yet . ' ` But , ' cried Lady Durwent , whose easily roused theatrical instinct gave her the delightful sensation of presiding at a meeting of the Cabinet , ` what have we to do with Austria and Servia ? ' ` Hear , hear , ' said the bland youth .