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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Fool!" ejaculated Perousse, forgetting all courtesy in the sudden access of rage that took possession of him at these words; "Fool, I say! At the very moment when you ought to stick to the ship, you desert it!" "Are you not ready to run to the helm?" enquired Lutera with a satiric smile; "Surely you can have no doubt but that his Majesty will command you to take office!"
It was evident, however, to the whole country that the times were in a ferment, that the Government was growing more unpopular, and that Carl Perousse, the chief hinge on which Governmental force turned, was under a cloud of the gravest suspicion.
To him, as well as to Carl Perousse, we owe the ridiculous urbanities of such extreme foreign diplomacies as expose our secret forces of war to our rivals; from him emanates the courteous and almost servile attention with which we foolishly exhibit our naval and military defences to our enemies.
And Leroy looked whimsically meditative "Still, as we are all friends and brothers here, there is no harm in conveying to you the fact that I have so far moved, in the appointed way, that Carl Perousse has ordered the discovery and arrest of one Pasquin Leroy, supposed to be a spy on the military defences of the city!" Lotys gave a little cry. "Not possible! So soon!"
None of the members of the Cabinet were much surprised, therefore, when they each received a summons from the King to wait upon him at the Palace that day week, 'to discuss affairs of national urgency, and the general impression appeared to be, that though Carl Perousse dismissed the 'street rowdyism, as he called it, with contempt, and spoke of 'disloyal traitors opposed to the Government, he was nevertheless riding for a fall; and that his chances of obtaining the Premiership were scarcely so sure as they had hitherto seemed.
But there is no need for fear, Carl Perousse will never be nominated to anything but disgrace! All his schemes are in my hand, I hold complete documentary proofs of his dishonesty and guilt; and the very day which you have chosen as that on which to appeal to the King against the choice of him as Prime Minister, will see him denounced by myself in person to the Government."
"Yet the mob often wins, not only by excess of numbers, but by sheer force of honesty!" said Bernhoff sententiously; "It has been known to sweep away, and re-make political constitutions before now." "It has," agreed Perousse, drawing pens and paper towards him, and feigning to be busily occupied in the commencement of a letter "But it will not indulge itself in such amusements during my time!"
Where possible, I have sought to fulfil them. Every accusation you have brought against the Ministry has been sifted to the bottom, and proved down to the hilt. My publicly-proclaimed decision to nominate Carl Perousse as Premier was merely thrown out as a test to try the temper and quality of the nation. That test has answered its purpose well!
"No he was not the King," said Jost slowly; "I know him well enough! But it might have been someone in the King's service! For he knew, or said he knew, the King's intentions in a certain matter affecting both you and Carl Perousse, and in a more distant way, myself and warned me of a coming change in the policy. Ah! it is now your turn to stare, Marquis!
But I do not care sufficiently for money to indulge in speculation. Nevertheless, let me tell you, speculation is good, and even necessary in matters affecting national finance, and I am confident " here he smiled enigmatically, "that the country's honour is safe in the hands of M. Perousse!"
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