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Updated: July 12, 2025
Come and breathe the odours of the Riviera, Monsieur Douaille. This is when I realise that I am not at my villa on the Black Sea." They passed out into the hall and stood on the terrace while the cars drew up. The light outside seemed faintly violet. The perfume of mimosa and roses and oleander came to him in long waves, subtle and yet invigorating.
"Monsieur Douaille," he said, "has come to see us this evening at my own urgent request. Before we commence any sort of discussion, he has asked me to make it distinctly understood to you both to you, Mr. Draconmeyer, and to you, Herr Selingman that this is not in any sense of the word a formal meeting or convention. We are all here, as it happens, by accident.
Hunterleys came forward from the gangway, at the foot of which the pinnace was waiting. "We are taking Monsieur Douaille ashore," Richard explained, as the two men shook hands. "He really doesn't belong to that gang and he wants to cut adrift. You understand my orders exactly, captain?" he asked, as they stepped down the iron gangway. "Perfectly, sir," was the prompt reply. "You may rely upon me.
Who wants to make notes, especially of what we are going to talk about! The man who cannot carry notes in his head is no statesman." Monsieur Douaille, who had chosen champagne and was smoking a cigarette, beamed approval. Much of his nervousness had departed. "I agree," he declared, "I like well the attitude of our friend Selingman. There is something much too formal about this table.
Our countries your country and mine are to-day bound together by an alliance. You have something which almost approaches an alliance with another country. I am going to tell you in plain words what I think you have been given to understand indirectly many times during the last few years that understanding is not approved of in St. Petersburg." Monsieur Douaille knocked the ash from his cigarette.
If they can make Douaille believe that he is going to restore her lost provinces to France without the shedding of a drop of French blood, simply at England's expense, he will be confronted with a problem over which any man might hesitate. He has had all day to think it over. What he may decide is simply on the knees of the gods."
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