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Captain Bluntschli (only known as 'the man' at this point) has just burst into Raina's bedroom. He has been fighting on the Serbian side of the Serbo-Bulgarian war and he begs her to hide him while the reigning Bulgarian army celebrate their success in the streets below. However, the Captain is Swiss with no real interest in the outcome of the war at all. Indeed, he carries chocolates instead of ammunition. A fiercely proud woman with a fiance in the Bulgarian army, Raina is disdainful of this
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MAN. A narrow shave; but a miss is as good as a mile. Dear young lady, your servant until death. I wish for your sake I had joined the Bulgarian army instead of the Servian. I am not a native Servian.
RAINA (haughtily). No, you are one of the Austrians who set the Servians on to rob us of our national liberty, and who officer their army for them. We hate them!
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