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Nevertheless, she was perfectly content and smiled her greetings to the great Monsieur George, who himself brought their menu. "We want the best of your ordinary dishes," Tallente told him, "and remember that we do not come here expecting Ritz specialities or a Savoy chef d'oeuvre.
"Look here, Tallente," he went on, "you're a big man in your way and I know perfectly well that you wouldn't throw away a real advantage out of pique. Consider this matter. I can't pledge the paper or the chief. I simply say see him and talk it over." Tallente shook his head. "I am much obliged, Greening," he said, "but I don't want to go through life with this thing hanging over me.
Jane smiled. "I am looking forward to it," she declared. "The only annoying part is that that stupid man won't promise to speak." "I shall have so much to say within the next week or so," Tallente observed, a little grimly, "that I think I had better keep quiet as long as I can." The moment for which Tallente had been longing came then. The front door closed behind the departing guests.
In the background, Miller, with his hands in his pockets, was smoking mechanically the cigarette which he had just rolled and lit. The thrill of a great moment brought to Tallente a feeling of almost strange exaltation. "I am your man, Dartrey," he promised. "I will do what I can."
Miller thinks that post is his by predestination. Your coming is beginning to worry him already. It was entirely on your account he paid me that visit this afternoon." "To be perfectly frank with you," Tallente sighed, "I should find Miller a loathsome coadjutor." "There are drawbacks to everything in life," Nora replied.
Tallente promptly disclaimed the achievement. "Stephen Dartrey is the man who did that," he declared. "I only joined the Democrats a few months ago." "But you are their leader," Lady Alice put in. "Only in the House of Commons," Tallente replied. "Dartrey is the leader of the party."
Personally, I am very sorry, Tallente, to do an unfriendly action, but I can only say, like the school-master before he canes a refractory pupil, that it is for your own good." "I should prefer to remain the arbiter of my own destiny," Tallente observed drily. "I suppose you fully understand that that noxious person, Miller, paid my defaulting secretary five thousand pounds for that manuscript?"
That man, who aims at being a Cabinet Minister, sits here in this room and admits that he bribed Mr. Tallente's secretary with five thousand pounds to steal the manuscript out of his safe. How do you think that will go down with the public?" "A certain portion of the public, I am afraid," Tallente said gravely, "will say that I discovered the theft and killed Palliser." "Killed Palliser!"
On the other hand, if you were inclined to have a heart-to-heart talk with the chief and our other editors, I believe that something might come of it." "In other words," Tallente said coldly, "your chief, who is one of the most magnificent opportunists I ever knew, has suddenly begun to wonder whether he is backing the right horse." "Something like it, perhaps," Greening admitted.
I was just off when I happened to see you. You're looking very fit and pleased with yourself. Is it because of that rotten trick you played on us the other day?" "Rotten? I thought it was rather clever of me," Tallente objected. "Perfectly legitimate, I suppose," the other assented grudgingly. "That's the worst of having a tactician in opposition."
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