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but I would have finished every plate myself,
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and every glass of wine as well.
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And then he goes upstairs with his mistress, to a nearby hotel,
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and the opportunity is past.
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And while he hesitates, as someone once wrote, his enemies do not.
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They eliminate the electoral procedure that allowed him to be elected.
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He is worried that they're going to arrest him
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and so he goes off to Brussels, he goes off to Belgium.
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And this makes him seem a little less dashing and a little less brave
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as he scurries across the frontier.
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And there's a committee working for him in France,
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but he stays there, and in the end what he does is--