Jacques Futrelle & Alonzo Kimball 
Elusive Isabel [EPUB ebook] 

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All the world rubs elbows in Washington. Outwardly it is merely a city of evasion, of conventionalities, sated with the commonplace pleasures of life, listless, blase even, and always exquisitely, albeit frigidly, courteous; but beneath the still, suave surface strange currents play at cross purposes, intrigue is endless, and the merciless war of diplomacy goes on unceasingly. Occasionally, only occasionally, a bubble comes to the surface, and when it bursts the echo goes crashing around the earth. Sometimes a dynasty is shaken, a nation trembles, a ministry topples over; but the ripple moves and all is placid again. No man may know all that happens there, for then he would be diplomatic master of the world. There is plenty of red blood in Washington, remarked a jesting legislative gray-beard, once upon a time, "but it’s always frozen before they put it in circulation. Diplomatic negotiations are conducted in the drawing-room, but long before that the fight is fought down cellar. The diplomatists meet at table and there isn’t any broken crockery, but you can always tell what the player thinks of the dealer by the way he draws three cards

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 285 ● ISBN 9782819900368 ● Casa editrice Pub One Info ● Pubblicato 2010 ● Scaricabile 6 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2434891 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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