text:  Such a hand it is to refuse a pledge to Alexander!" The politician was on the right track; for such a pretty hand was not in Sweden--nor probably in Denmark either--and the cunning old minister took it between his finger and thumb and placed it almost on the lip of the irate young worshipper of glory; if it did not actually touch the lip it went very near it and distinctly moved one or two of the most prominent tufts of the stout yellow mustache