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In connection with the condition of our finances, it affords me pleasure to remark that judicious and efficient arrangements have been made by the Treasury Department for securing the pecuniary responsibility of the public officers and the more punctual payment of the public dues.
To-morrow brings back this weekly spectre! To-morrow Jasper Losely, punctual to the stroke of eleven, returns to remind him of that past which, if revealed, will blast the future. And revealed it might be any hour despite the bribe for silence which he must pay with his own hands, under his own roof. Would he trust another with the secret of that payment? horror!
She was a small woman, neat and pleasing in appearance, and her manner was sufficiently cordial as she came forward; though the reverse of demonstrative, it was dry rather than cold. 'You are very punctual, she said as she kissed the children and shook hands with their young escort, saying as she did so, 'Mr Denison, I presume?
Both partners agreed that their great object, now that the undertaking was beginning to maintain itself, was to lay by all they could, for of course bad debts and bad times would come. "It is a great satisfaction to think that though people may do without books or pictures or music, they must wear clothes; and if you fit well, and are punctual, you are certain to have customers.
Gutch, "and likewise for the first week of the annuity, and will call every Saturday for the same at eleven punctual, or can be posted to me on a Friday, whichever is agreeable to you gentlemen.
Was the love of a mortal woman coming in to distract him from his love to that land with an immortal future? It pleased him and tantalised him thus to question himself and find himself unable to give the answers. But he bore in mind the fact that Hamilton, the most punctual of living men, was not quite punctual this time.
When he entered the room, he hastened to kiss the princess's hand with the most finished gallantry. "Always punctual, my dear M. Baleinier." "Always eager and happy to attend to your highness's orders." Then turning towards the marquis, whose hand he pressed cordially, he added: "Here we have you then at last. Do you know, that three months' absence appears very long to your friends?"
"Why can't you stay?" urged his host. "Because, I tell you, I don't want to," which set us all laughing, and settled the question. Our first knowledge of his arrival in town was usually that early and punctual ring at the door to which I have referred. He would come in looking pale and thin, but full of fire, and, as we would soon find, of a certain vigor.
Every eye was fixed observantly upon the king, whose severity in military discipline was known and feared. "Do you know," said the king at last, "that I command my officers to be punctual at parade?" "Yes, sire." "Do you know that it is positively forbidden to leave Potsdam without permission?" "Yes, your majesty." "Well, then, since this was known to you, where have you been?
He was in a rough peasant's overcoat of a dirty white cloth, drawn in at the waist, and split from heel to band, for use in the saddle. They wear such coats still in Poland and Galicia. Kosmaroff gave a little cough. There is nothing so unmistakable as a man's trick of coughing. The horseman pulled up at once. "You are punctual," he said. "I was nearly asleep in the saddle."
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