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He looked at her in silence."I tell you that now, so that if you want to hate me, you can hate me from the beginning."They went to Ender's tiny compartment in the ISL and she explained. Peter wanted Ender back on Earth, underthe protection of the Hegemon's Council. "The way things are right now, Ender, that would put you effectivelyunder Peter's control, since half the council now does just what Peter wants. The ones that aren't Locke's lapdogsare under his thumb in other ways.""Do they know who he really is?""Yes. He isn't publicly known,. but people in high places know him. It doesn't matter any more. He has toomuch power for them to worry about his age. He's done incredible things, Ender.""I noticed the treaty a year ago was named for Locke.""That was his breakthrough. He proposed it through his friends from the public policy nets, and thenDemosthenes got behind it, too. It was the moment he had been waiting for, to use Demosthenes' influence withthe mob and Locke's influence with the intelligentsia to accomplish something noteworthy. It forestalled a reallyvicious war that could have lasted for decades.""He decided to be a statesman?""I think so. But in his cynical moments, of which there are many, he pointed out to me that if he had allowedthe League to fall apart completely, he'd have to conquer the world piece by piece. As long as the Hegemonyexists, he can do it in one lump."Ender nodded. "That's the Peter that I knew."第 327 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网