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Updated: May 19, 2025
"I do not know exactly what a concession means," said the King, "but if any one will pay for it I will give them permission to make the people of Megalia into sausages and kidneys. Believe me, my friend, that is the only development of which the Megalians are capable. They are pigs Gadarene pigs." "We won't suggest that in the prospectus," said Gorman.
"The Megalians," said Sir Bartholomew, "are a fighting race, and in the critical position of Balkan Affairs a delicate equipoise " He seemed taken with the phrase for he repeated it "A remarkably delicate equipoise the intervention of the Megalian Army would turn the scale and I feel certain decide the issue.
"If you mean Konrad Karl," said Gorman, "I should call him the late king. They had a revolution there, you know, and hunted him out, I believe Megalia is a republic now." "None of the Great Powers," said Sir Bartholomew, "has ever recognised the Republic of Megalia." He spoke as if what he said disposed of the Megalians finally.
Konrad Karl, at that time prince, was the hero of several first-rate scandals, and had the reputation of being the most irrepressible blackguard of royal blood in all Europe. He was a perpetual source of trouble in the Imperial Court. Gorman says that the Emperor pushed him on to the vacant throne in the hopes that the Megalians would assassinate him.
"Those points," he said, "will be considered in settling the price. I'm aware that Europe has its prejudices. I'm not out to trample on them. Genuine vested interests owned by other monarchs will be paid for. Ambassadors and chancellors will be taken on and employed at their old salaries as part of a going concern." Gorman is, like the Megalians, enterprising and full of courage.
All that is required to secure the action of the Megalians is the presence in the country of a leader, someone whom the people know and recognise, someone who can appeal to the traditional loyalty of a chivalrous race, in short " "You can't be thinking of the late king?" said Gorman. "They're not the least loyal to him. They deposed him, you know.
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