"Exactly;--of course. It was quite necessary,--only you see I am a little busy. If this d----d dinner were over I shouldn't mind. It's a deal easier to make a treaty with an Emperor, than to give him a dinner; I can tell you that. Well;--let me see. Oh;--I was proposing that you should go out to Pekin?"
"To Mexico."

"Exactly; of course - only you see I am a little busy. If this d___d dinner were over I shouldn't mind. Let me see. Oh; I was proposing that you should go out to Peking?"
"To Mexico."
