If "he came a cropper" in this matter, it would be such an awful cropper! "How do you like the party?" he said to Marie.
"I don't like it at all, my lord. How do you like it?"
"Very much, indeed. I think the Emperor is the greatest fun I ever saw. Prince Frederic,"--one of the German princes who was staying at the time among his English cousins,--"Prince Frederic says that he's stuffed with hay, and that he's made up fresh every morning at a shop in the Haymarket."
"I've seen him talk."

If "he came a cropper" in this matter, it would be such an awful cropper!
"How do you like the party?" he said to Marie.
"I don't like it at all, my lord. How do you like it?"
"Very much indeed. I think the Emperor is the greatest fun I ever saw. Prince Frederic says that he's stuffed with hay."
"I've seen him talk."
