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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Do but secure your seat, and as soon as this popular fever has passed away, you must be something more than the leader of Opposition, you must be the first man in England." "Not a doubt of that," chimed in the fellow ex-minister, a worthy man, perfect red-tapist, but inaudible in the reporters' gallery. "And your election is quite safe, eh? All depends on that.
No, don't you remember, the truth came out suddenly through the very man who was keeping it back: Germineaux, the ex-minister of justice, a cousin of the chairman of the Canal Company. As he lay dying of consumption, he wrote from his sick-bed to the prefect of police, bequeathing him that list of names, which, he said, would be found, after his death, in an iron chest in the corner of his room.
"And yet that same dark little ex-Minister has perhaps, in many respects the most powerful mind at all events, the most available mind impelled as it is by his restless ambition, in all France. Do you observe how incessantly his keen black eye flashes around the house, beneath his huge glasses?" "He seems perfectly aware that every eye in the house is directed toward his loge.
The ex-minister said: "The criterion, O sire, of a wise and competent man is that he will not meddle with such like matters. The homayi, or phoenix, is honored above all other birds because it feeds on bones, and injures no living creature."
In the house were the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, ex-Minister of the Interior Kvostov, Deputy Purishkevitch, and others. When the policeman went to ask what had happened, he received no explanation. A little later two motor-cars drove up to the door. In one of the cars a large bundle was placed. It was the body of Rasputin.
It was now let out to a multitude of families, who began downstairs in affluence and ended in the genteel or artistic penury of the garrets. The first floor was occupied by a deputy and ex-minister, one of the leaders of the Centre Gauche in the garrets it was possible for a rapin to find a bedroom at sixteen francs a month.
It is betrayed from time to time by incidents whose gravity is daily increasing railway strikes, postmen's strikes, explosions on board ironclads, &c. A propos of the destruction of the Liberte, which cost more than two million pounds and slew two hundred men in the space of a minute, an ex-Minister of Marine, M. de Lanessan, expresses himself as follows:
He is said to be a slick politician, and when he has been at dinner with our liberal friends he tells them how even he is calumniated people say that he is a member of the Anfu Club. I struck another side of China on my way home from Tientsin. I was introduced to an ex-Minister of Finance as my traveling companion. He is a Ph.D. in higher math. from America, and is a most intelligent man.
And then, with "ex-Minister" on his visiting cards, and a sense of duty well performed, for the rest of his life he could join the other expatriates in Paris. Just before dinner, the cruiser RALEIGH having discovered the whereabouts of the SERAPIS by wireless, entered the harbor, and Admiral Hardy came to the yacht to call upon the senator, in whose behalf he had been scouring the Caribbean Seas.
McSween, ex-minister, lawyer, honest or dishonest instigator, innocent or malicious cause and one may choose his adjectives in this matter of all these bloody scenes, now sat in the house, his head bowed in his hands, the picture of foreboding despair. His nerve was absolutely gone. No one paid any attention to him. His wife, the actual leader, was far braver than he. The Kid was the commander.
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