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I simply told him that I wished my guests to have of the best." "Yet you never touch this sort of drink yourself," Immelan observed curiously. The Prince shook his head. "Sometimes I take wine," he said. "That is generally at night.
"America would be powerless," Immelan insisted. "So you said before, in 1917," was the dry reminder. "I did not come here, however, to talk world politics with you. Those things for the moment are finished. I came in answer to your summons." Immelan raised himself a little in the bed. "You meant what you said?" he demanded, with hoarse anxiety. "There was no poison? Swear that?"
"It would not be necessary," Prince Shan declared. "It is in my mind to offer her marriage." Immelan dropped the cigarette case which he had just drawn from his pocket. He gazed at his companion in blank and unaffected astonishment. "Marriage?" he muttered. "You are not serious!" "I am entirely serious," the Prince insisted. "I can understand your amazement, Immelan.
His voice was calm and expressionless. His eyes, in which there shone no shadow of fear, were steadily fixed upon Immelan. He spoke without flurry. "So you carry your own weapons to-night, Immelan," he said. "That at least is more like a man. You seem to have a grievance against every one. Start with me. What is it?"
And Lady Maggie fascinates me." Immelan fetched two chairs, and they settled down to watch the set. Nigel, with his clean, well-knit figure, looked his best in spotless white flannels. Chalmers, a more powerful and muscular type, also presented a fine appearance. The play was fast and sometimes brilliant.
Then, on the other hand, I look at home, and I ask myself whether you do not make what they would call over here a cat's-paw of my country." "Ours is the most natural and most beneficial of all possible alliances," Immelan insisted. "Germany and Russia, hand in hand, can dominate the world." "I am not sure that it is an equal bargain, though, which you seek to drive with us," she said.
I am dying of your accursed poison!" "If that were true," Prince Shan replied, with the air of one willing to discuss the subject impartially, "might I remind you of Sen Lu, who died in my box at the Albert Hall? For whom was that dagger thrust meant, Immelan? Not for the man whom you had bought to betray me, the only one of my suite who has ever been tempted with gold.
Once I thought that I might love again, because a stranger smiled at me in the Bois, and he had grey eyes, and that look about his mouth which a woman craves for. He passed on, and I forgot. You see, my lord was still there. So this is the woman." "Who knows?" he answered. Immelan came into the box a little abruptly. There was a cloud upon his face which he did his best to conceal.
"Very little. She seemed sympathetic, but after all she is in the enemy camp. She and Immelan seemed on particularly good terms." "Yet I don't believe that she is committed as yet," Maggie declared. "She always used to speak so affectionately of England. Nigel, do you think that I have vision?" "I am sure that you have," he answered. "Very well, then, I will tell you what I see," she continued.
Your scheme itself was bold and almost splendid, but, as you yourself well know at the back of your mind, it would lay the seeds of a world tumult. I have studied history, Immelan, perhaps a little more deeply than you, and I do not believe in conquests. For the restoration to China of such lands as belong geographically and rightly to the Chinese Empire, I have my own plans.
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