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Updated: June 12, 2025
They would very much have preferred to have made a tool of the reigning Duke, but Selpdorf, who had been plying him for more than a month with a ceaseless and exhaustive course of innuendo, discouragement, and veiled temptation, was at length convinced, by the Duke's reply on the day of the review, that nothing further was to be hoped for in that direction.
Your Chicago cousin at Queen's Fain is dying and you are his heir. Yet you are to be ruined ruined by the hate of Elmur and Sagan, and what are you to Selpdorf but a fly to be crushed whose presence annoys him? 'Are you sure of this? His sending me to be witness of your assassination fits in badly with the theory of his collusion. 'Perfectly; Sagan stultified the scheme, that was all.
'I was not prepared to see you this evening, began Selpdorf. 'I have brought the despatches, your Excellency, replied Rallywood, taking the packet from his pocket but continuing to hold it in his hand. Selpdorf eyed him. 'From whom? 'Lieutenant Unziar. The affair was falling out in an unexpected manner.
I could not consent to become a naturalised citizen even of the Duchy of Maäsau. 'Ah, so? Selpdorf stroked his chin, then despatching the objection with a wave of his hand, he resumed, 'We must overlook that in your case. You have already served the Duke for five years with as sincere zeal as the truest Maäsaun amongst us.
'And I will assure M. Selpdorf that I am accustomed to make up my own mind! You know it already, Selpdorf! 'I have always known it, sire, said the supple Chancellor. 'You will hear my reasons? asked Sagan angrily. The Duke nodded. 'Captain Rallywood was guilty of gross disobedience of orders.
Whenever the Treasury of Maäsau was at a low ebb Selpdorf usually had a thirteenth card to lay upon the table, and as the nations cautiously proceeded to frustrate each other's purposes royal remittances from Heaven knows where flowed in abundantly to replenish the bankrupt exchequer of the State.
The chancellor of a small State might very well have been pardoned had he introduced a certain amount of what an old official used to call 'desk dignity' into his dealings with those who approached him, but Selpdorf habitually affected an easy manner and an easy chair.
He frowned and looked at his watch. Half an hour had passed since Selpdorf dismissed him. At that moment a guttural voice broke the silence of the house, and the heavy curtain over the door at the nearer end of the ante-room was thrust back by a brusque hand, and a tall, high-shouldered, handsome man, dressed as if he were about to attend some Court function, stood in the opening.
In his hand he held a crumpled sheet of parchment. The men rose as he took his place at the head of the table. 'Insermann's dead, and Selpdorf says The Colonel's choked ejaculations broke, his voice failed him, and he sent the paper fluttering from his hand across the silver and glass till little Adolf picked it up. In another moment Colonel Wallenloup was more coherent.
'This is not the age of miracles, my friend! 'I remember also something which your Excellency forgets, said Selpdorf, with a touch of sadness in his voice, 'that there have been Selpdorfs helping in this miracle of the independence of Maäsau for generations. Elmur altered his attitude with an open impatience. 'You are a far-sighted patriot, Monsieur.
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