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No duel ! BURR. [Continuing. ] Kept me from the Presi dency DOLLY. Politics ! And still no duel ! BURR. Now he turns the careless chatter of his own. Dinner-table to destroy me. DOLLY. [As if skeptical. ] What can he do to ki des troy " you ? BURR. He says I m a dangerous man ! DOLLY. [Bursting into ripple of laughter. ] And that s the reason for a duel ? If twere, you d have to fight half the men in the United States and all the women ! [Rises. ] He s always called you " dangerous. " 122 THE F...IRST LADY OF THE LAND BURR. {Lightly . ] Dangerous to the country. That I didn t mind " Politics " as you say. But now he becomes personal ! DOLLY. [Half in question. ] Who is she ? BURR. [Gesture of denial. ] No, no ! DOLLY. [Standing at right of table. Insisting. ] The truth ! Who is she ? Back of all the quarrels tween you two there s always been a she ! Bove all the nigh-sounding phrases of politics and prin ciples one could always hear the rustle of a petti coat. You ve endured much from each other in public life.
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