"Y— maybe. I'd have to go look up the figures," Lew trying not to get into eye contact with this customer.
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Definitely more Hungarians in the meatpacking district than bison in the wild. But I guess that's not Lew's point! He's just trying to extricate himself from the horrid turn this conversation has taken. How do you dissuade royalty from seeking to hunt other human beings?! Probably like this. You pull away, slightly ignore, express awkward discomfort, and create imaginary roadblocks, like looking up figures, to make the entire request seem implausible.
Of course Lew could have also suggested the Archduke join up with the Chicago Police or the Pinkertons if he really wanted to go about killing poor immigrants with impunity and no public backlash.
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