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Blaine therefore zigzagged more to westward, thereby throwing the reviving Erwin into an easier position. At this an easier position. At this Blaine was pleased to see his friend look wonderingly at him and the bowed head slightly raise itself. "Lay still right where you are, Orry," murmured Lafe. "There's a Boche after us.
What will people say? Nobody'll come to see us in a small house. What will Mrs. Orry say?" interrupted Mrs. Newt. "Let her say what she chooses, Nancy. What will honest people say to whom your husband owes honest debts, if you don't try to pay them?" "They are not my debts, and I don't see why I should suffer for them," said Mrs. Newt, vehemently, and crying.
Orry, 'Do look at Fanny Newt hug that man! It was dreadful to hear her say such things, my dear; and then to see the whole room stare at you! It was cruel it was really unfeeling." Fanny did not wince. She merely said, "How old is Mrs. Kite, Aunt Dagon?" "Well, let me see; she's about my age, I suppose." "Oh! well, Aunt, people at her time of life can't see or hear much, you know.
It was further increased, also, by having turned the Court of France against her, and engendered a coolness towards her on the part of Madame de Maintenon herself, who up to that juncture had always approved of her manner of acting and her system of government, but who now, seizing the occasion of Orry having established some imposts upon the Catalans, did not hesitate to say very harshly and laconically: "We do not think Orry fit for his post, for Spain is very badly governed."
This expedient for making roads without paying for them was thought so ingenious that in 1737 a circular of the Comptroller-General Orry established it throughout France. Nothing can better demonstrate the melancholy fate of the rural population; the progress of society, which enriches all the other classes, drives them to despair, and civilisation itself turns against that class alone.
Pursegur, who had found nothing wanting up to that time, never doubted but that these statements were perfectly correct; and had no suspicion that a minister would have the effrontery to show him in detail all these precautions if he had taken none. Pleased, then, to the utmost degree, he wrote to the King in praise of Orry, and consequently of Madame des Ursins and her wise government.
The King determined to banish her to Rome and to dismiss Orry from his post. It was felt, however, that these steps must be taken cautiously, to avoid offending too deeply the King and Queen of Spain, who supported their favourite through every emergency.
She governed absolutely in all things; the ministers became instruments in her hands; the King and Queen agents to work out her will. She was at the highest pinnacle of power. Together with Orry she enjoyed a power such as no one had ever attained since the time of the Duke of Lerma and of Olivares.
"Reckon anything will happen, Lafe?" "How should I know, Orry? Wait awhile and see." Ten days later arrived two war medals, and two appointments; one for Blaine as sergeant in the aviation corps, the other for Orry as first corporal in the same.
Few of the officers of state, except, perhaps, D'Argenson, could venture to disregard her. She turned out Orry, the comptroller-general, put her favorite, Machault, into his place, then made him keeper of the seals, and at last minister of marine.
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