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Updated: June 7, 2025
This is a position which I should court rather than submit to blackmail direct or indirect." "My Chief will resent your using such a word, sir," Williams declared. "Your Chief could have avoided it by a judicious use of the waste-paper basket and an exercise of the gift of silence." Tallente retorted, as the young man took his departure.
She sighed. "Men are helpless creatures! Fancy a great politician unable to write his own letters! What has become of your secretary?" Tallente threw some books to the floor and seated himself in the vacant easy-chair. "I shall begin to think," he said, a little querulously, "that you don't read the newspapers.
"Could we not make a bargain now? I will give you a hundred thousand pounds and settle five million dollars on the holder of the title forever, if you will accept this peerage. I wouldn't mind a present to the party funds, either, if that helped matters." Tallente shook his head. "I am sorry for your disappointment," he said, "but nothing would induce me to accept a seat in the Upper House.
It's their atmosphere you've been brought up in. It's with them you want to live. That's what I mean when I say that you're not a people's man, Tallente, and I defy any one to say that you are." "Miller," Dartrey intervened earnestly, "you are expounding a case from the narrowest point of view. You say that Tallente was born an aristocrat.
"Tallente's position," he said thoughtfully, "one can understand. He is married, isn't he, and with all the splendid breadth of his intellectual outlook he is still harassed by the social fetters of his birth and bringing up. I can conceive Tallente as a person too highminded to seek to evade the law and too scornful for intrigue. But you, Nora, how is it that your love brings you unhappiness?
"He is doing his work well, isn't he?" "The mechanical side of it is most satisfactory," Dartrey confessed. "He is the most perfect Parliamentary machine that was ever evolved." "Surely that is exactly what you want? You were always complaining that there was no one to bring the stragglers into line." "For the present," Dartrey admitted, "Tallente is doing excellently.
"Jane," she said, "we have become reconciled, your father and I, against our wills, to your strange political views and the isolation in which you choose to live, but when your eccentricities lead you to a course of action which makes you the target for scandal, your family protests. I have come to beg that this intimacy of yours with Mr. Tallente should cease."
"I know all about that," Williams assented, "but this time, Tallente, there's something in it. The Chief quarrelled with you for the sake of the old gang. Well, he made a bloomer. The old gang aren't worth six-pence. They're rather a hindrance than help to legislation, and when they're wanted they're wobbly, as you saw this afternoon. Lethbridge went into the lobby with you."
Tallente passed through a plain white gate, down an avenue of dwarfed oaks, to emerge into an unexpectedly green meadow, cloven through the middle with a straight white avenue.
The article is in type now. It won't be out for a day or two. When it does, we look upon it as the biggest political scoop of this decade." "I protest to you formally," Tallente said, "against the publication by a respectable journal of a stolen document." Greening shook his head. "Won't do, Tallente," he replied. "We have had a meeting and decided to publish.
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