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He smoked his pipe and listened, and, in her low musical and so well-modulated voice, she continued her tale about herself, M. Delacour, La Voix du Peuple, and M. Darres. Her conversation was full of names and allusions to matters of which Harold knew nothing.
Madame Delacour's health was the subject of many disparaging remarks, in the course of which Mildred called into question the legitimacy of one of her children, and the honourability of Darres as a card-player. The conversation at last turned on Panama. M. Delacour had, of course, denied the charge of blackmail and bribery. Neither had been proved against him.
The principal spool was the Panama scandals.... But around it there were little spools full of various thread, a little of which Mildred unwound from time to time. When the first accusations against the Deputies were made, I warned him. I told him that the matter would not stop there, but he was over confident. Moreover, I warned him against Darres. 'Who's Darres?
'But it wasn't true? 'No; certainly it wasn't true. I wonder you can ask me. But, after that, it was impossible for me to stay any longer in the house. 'Where is Madame Delacour, is she with her husband? 'No; she's separated from him. She's gone back to her own people. She lives with them somewhere in the south near Pau, I think. 'She's not with Darres? Mildred hesitated.
It was impossible to lead Mildred into further explanation, and she spoke of the loss of the paper. It had passed into the hands of M. Darres; he had changed the staff; he had refused her articles, that was the extraordinary part; explained the unwisdom Darres had showed in his editorship. The paper was now a wreck.
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