A King's Commander
“Lewrie sneered softly. “However did you come by that? And, ain’t you slightly out of your usual bounds, sir?”
“A half-addled banking clerk of the Hebrew persuasion may be an object of amusement, Lewrie . . . of some derision,” Twigg replied with a conspirator’s mutter, though sounding pleased with his alias. “Hardly one to suspect as a spy, though. We, after all, finance their wars for them. Apolitically, mind . . . with suspected loyalties only to the bank, the guinea, and one’s tribe. As ...for my presence, the Far East became more a military, or a naval problem, of the overt sort. And, too, our last escapade made me too well-known there. With French influence limited to Pondichery or their Indian Ocean islands, their trade dried up, and with trade their hopes to service informers, agents provocateurs, pirates, well . . .”
Twigg shrugged expressively, then with the dropping of his arms he seemed to fall back into his assumed character.MoreLess
“A half-addled banking clerk of the Hebrew persuasion may be an object of amusement, Lewrie . . . of some derision,” Twigg replied with a conspirator’s mutter, though sounding pleased with his alias. “Hardly one to suspect as a spy, though. We, after all, finance their wars for them. Apolitically, mind . . . with suspected loyalties only to the bank, the guinea, and one’s tribe. As ...for my presence, the Far East became more a military, or a naval problem, of the overt sort. And, too, our last escapade made me too well-known there. With French influence limited to Pondichery or their Indian Ocean islands, their trade dried up, and with trade their hopes to service informers, agents provocateurs, pirates, well . . .”
Twigg shrugged expressively, then with the dropping of his arms he seemed to fall back into his assumed character.MoreLess
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