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Updated: May 11, 2025
Lutera maintained his former expression of polite surprise, but said nothing. Instinct warned him to be sparing of words lest he should betray his own private anxiety. The Prince went on carelessly. "Majesty takes humours like other men, and must, more than other men, I suppose, be humoured!
Ah! if those who consider a Prime Minister great and exalted, could only see him as he pulls on his trousers, and fastens his shirt collar, what a disillusion would be promptly effected! Especially if, like the Marquis de Lutera, he happened to be over-stout, and difficult to clothe!
I am afraid, Marquis, you are not likely to escape the common doom!" Lutera rose slowly, and prepared to take his departure. "I shall call a Cabinet Council for Monday," he said; "This is Friday. You will find it convenient to attend?" Perousse, rising at the same time, assented smilingly. "You will see things in a better and clearer light by then," he said. "Rely on me!
People shook their heads ominously, and wondered when the King would give M. Perousse the task of forming a new Ministry, while they watched with deepening interest the progress of the various Government debates, which were carried on in the usual way, following the lines laid down by the absent Premier, Marquis de Lutera.
But he found various channels on which he had previously relied for information, rigorously closed to him. He had written many times to the Marquis de Lutera to ask if the report of his having sent in his resignation was correct, but he had received no answer.
I have made 'the peasant ploughing the fields' a special form of study, and I have always found him a remarkably discontented, often ill-fed and therefore unhealthy individual." "We are all discontented, if it comes to that!" said Prince Humphry with a light laugh, "Except myself! I am perfectly contented!" "You have reason to be, Sir," said Lutera, bowing low. "You are quite right, Marquis!
While this affair was being contested and argued, a considerable sensation was created by the news that the Marquis de Lutera had suddenly left the country, ostensibly for his health, which, everyone was assured, had completely broken down.
I have not involved you thus far with any intention of bringing you to loss or disaster. Whatever befalls you in this affair must equally befall me; we are both in the same boat. We must carry things through with a firm hand, and show no hesitation. As for the King, his business is to be a Dummy; and as Dummy he must remain." Lutera made no reply.
The first was, that not only had his Majesty accepted the resignation of the Marquis de Lutera as Premier, but that he had decided provided the selection was entirely agreeable to the Government to ask M. Carl Perousse to form a Ministry in his place.
"After all," thought Perousse, as a result of his meditations; "there is no immediate cause for anxiety. If Lutera has sent in his resignation, it may not be accepted. That rests like other things with the King." And a vague surprise affected him at this fact. "Curious!" he muttered, "Very curious that he, who was a Nothing, should now be a Something!
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