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"Precisely," he said, "I see your drift exactly. You say what is the Ballplatz? I reply quite frankly that it is almost impossible to answer. Probably one could best define it as the driving power behind the Ausgleich." "I see," said Rapley. "Though the plain fact is that ever since the Herzegovinian embroglio the Ballplatz is little more than a counterpoise to the Wilhelmstrasse."
After which somebody else said: "I wonder how many of these submarines Germany has, anyway?" And then we drifted back into the humbler kind of war talk that we have been carrying on for three years. But later, as we walked home together, Rapley said to me: "That fellow threw a lot of light on things in Europe, didn't he?" And I answered: "Yes." What liars we all are!
This hobgoblin, Jack Rapley by name, is May's great crony; and she stands on the brink of the steep, irregular descent, her black eyes fixed full upon him, as if she intended him the favour of jumping on his head. She does: she is down, and upon him; but Jack Rapley is not easily to be knocked off his feet.
I think, Miss May, you may as well come up again, and leave Master Rapley to fight your battles. He'll get out of the scrape. He is a rustic wit a sort of Robin Goodfellow the sauciest, idlest, cleverest, best-natured boy in the parish; always foremost in mischief, and always ready to do a good turn. 'Come, May! and up she springs, as light as a bird.
I didn't know just whether to speak with regret or not. I heard Rapley murmur, "I guess so." "And there is not a doubt," continued the Authority, "that when Mittel-Europa goes, Grossdeutschthum goes with it." "Oh, sure to," we all murmured.
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