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The Snare

CHAPTER II
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But when, finding their criticisms fail, the members of the Council, in their wrongheadedness, in their anxiety to allow private interest to triumph over public duty, go the length of thwarting the measures of which they do not approve, the end of Lord Wellington's patience has been reached.

I am giving your Excellency his own words.
He feels that it is futile to remain in a country whose Government is determined to undermine his every endeavour to bring this campaign to a successful issue.
"Yourself, sir, you appear to be distressed.

But the Council of Regency will no doubt take a different view.

It will rejoice in the departure of a man whose military operations it finds so detestable.

You will no doubt discover this when you come to lay Lord Wellington's decision before the Council, as I now invite you to do." Bewildered and undecided, Forjas stood there for a moment, vainly seeking words.


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