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Updated: June 18, 2025
These thoughts jostled each other in Jacques de Wissant's brain. But whether he had been right or wrong it was too late to alter now. He went into the room where the Admiral stood waiting for him. The two men shook hands, but neither spoke till they had left the house.
A softer, kindlier light came into Claire de Wissant's sad grey eyes. She held out a hesitating hand and Jacques de Wissant, before placing his gift in it, took that soft hand in his, and, bending rather awkwardly, kissed it lightly. In France, even now, a man will often kiss a woman's hand by way of conventional, respectful homage.
As you know, I am to be at the station in half an hour to meet the Minister of Marine. He will probably wish to go out at once to the scene of the calamity, and I shall have to accompany him." The Admiral was annoyed at having been thus sent for to the town hall. It was surely Jacques de Wissant's place to have come to him.
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