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Updated: May 26, 2025
Their only interest in me was that I could carry elections. With you, it has been different. I don't know why you stuck to me. Why did you, Jessie?" Without replying, she hastily left the room and phoned for the doctor. The papers that night reported the ex-Premier's condition as "causing grave apprehension to his friends." When Pearl read it in the evening papers, she made a quick resolve.
I can't help about Dick," and, shaking off Miss Scaife's detaining hand, she went to play the usual imposture. Eleanor looked round in bewilderment. Seeing Lady Perry, she was struck with an idea, crossed the room, and joined the ex-Premier's smiling, pleasant wife. Lady Perry had noticed enough to be au fait with the situation at a word.
When Pearl was taken around to the back garden, Rosie retired to a point of vantage on the sleeping-porch above, and got most of the conversation, by abandoning all scrubbing operations, and sitting very still. The ex-Premier's wife arose as if to leave, but he motioned her to stay. "This concerns you too, Jessie," he said.
And, indeed, the ex-premier's references to the economic ruin of the country were strongly supported by the dispatches that had for some time been coming from the Greek capital. "Greece," said a prominent official to a press correspondent, "is much more likely to be starved into war than Germany is to be starved out of it."
By his sharp remarks and his adept turns of speech he often, however, creates much laughter as, for instance, when he once spoke of an ex-Premier's opportunism and readiness to make promises which, when they ought to be fulfilled, "snap went the Gladstone bag" but he never degenerates into anything approaching buffoonery. Mr.
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