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In this matter Great Britain supported her ally, and the incident of Agadir in 1911 showed the solidity of the Entente. This demonstration no doubt strengthened the hands of the aggressive elements in France, and later on the influence of M. Delcassé and M. Poincaré was believed in certain quarters to have given new energy to this direction of French policy.
"I told M. Delcassé in reply that I must conclude from the language which he had held that the French Government had decided that they would not recall M. Marchand before receiving his report, and I asked if I was right in this conclusion. I pointed out to his Excellency that M. Marchand himself is stated to be desirous of retiring from his position, which appeared to be a disagreeable one.
In France, Delcassé left the foreign office and Viviani ceased to head the cabinet, following the collapse of Serbia in the second autumn of the war. "The tragedy of Roumania a year later contributed to the overthrow of Asquith and his foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, in Great Britain. San Giuliano of the Italian foreign office and Salandra, the prime minister, have passed.
I arrived at my hotel about three o'clock in the morning of the tenth and found awaiting me in my room, the Countess' maid. She delivered part of an important conversation which had taken place between Delcasse and the Prince, and of which I shall presently give the substance and its explanation.
"Even if my aunt, that Madame Delcassé, should not like me you see, I have thought of everything, and I am not afraid." "Like you ? She'll love you," said Ryder bitterly. "She'll go mad over you and give you all she has she'll marry you to a count " "Another marriage?" Aimée raised brows of mockery. "But I am through with the marriages of convenience "
"It is no end of good of you, Jack, to take this trouble," Andrew McLean remarked appreciatively, looking up from his scrutiny of the packet which his unexpected luncheon guest had pushed over to his plate. "Uncommon thoughtful. It's undoubtedly a twin to that locket, the portrait of the man's wife whatever his name was." "Delcassé," said Jack Ryder promptly.
She saw herself, in those moments, helpless, and hopeless, passing on into the slavery of this marriage Aimée, no longer the daughter of Tewfick Pasha, but Aimée Delcassé, child of a dead Frenchman, inheritor of freedom, sold like any dancing girl.... And her own lips had assented.
Yes, and another man and he thought swiftly, in a lightning flash of wonder, how little that Paul Delcassé had known when he set his eager face toward the Old World, with his wife and baby with him, that he was setting his feet into such a web ... that his wife would die, languishing in a pasha's harem, and his little daughter would one night be flying in mad terror from the cruel beast the weak pasha had sold her to!
Not a ruffle of discord in the establishment of these salient facts the marriage of Madame Delcassé to the pasha and the existence of the daughter. Wonderful man McLean. He had never half appreciated him. But the pasha was not wholly the simple assenter. "Do I understand," he inquired, "that there is a fortune coming from France for my daughter?"
In the case of France, again, it was indeed true that M. Jules Cambon had repeatedly emphasized to the ex-Chancellor the desire for more intimate relations between France and Germany. But the French had never forgiven the driving of Delcassé out of office, and the result of the Algeciras conference had not healed the wound. Besides this, there was the undying question of Alsace-Lorraine.
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