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Hamilton.
[At escritoire up l.] You'll join me in that?
Schuyler.
No, I've got a milk-fed foot.
Hamilton.
[Laughing.] Milk for General Schuyler.
Zekiel.
Yassah.
[Zekiel exits l. happy.
Hamilton.
[Sitting on edge of table l. of Schuyler.] Well, what news? You saw General Washington?
Schuyler.
He's in the lowest depths of depression, Alexander.
Hamilton.
About the financial conditions.
Schuyler.
He's not as young as you, you know. He was born to fight,—but not to fight politicians.
Hamilton.
Well, I'm going to do the fighting now. [Picks up pens.] Here's a whole new bundle of pens and I'm going to stick a man with every one of them.
Schuyler.
The opposition have half a dozen bundles to your one, and they poison the points.
