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"I know nothing of your beauty beyond what she has herself said to me and you and Cynegius and his Secretaries with her pretty, saucy eyes. But the language of the eye, they say, is not always to be depended on; so take it as unsaid. And, if I understood you rightly, you do not even know where the singers are hiding? If you have no objection, I will help you to seek them out."
Day and night the state found him vigilant and collected; the most important and the most insignificant things were alike weighed by him with scrupulous attention. Not unfrequently he employed five secretaries at one time, dictating to them in different languages, of which he is said to have spoken seven.
Through the frosted glass of the door Hamilton Burton saw the shadows of hurrying figures and knew that the secretaries and stenographers out there were in a flutter of uneasy excitement. Wall street knew what it meant when the "old man" was on the rampage. While this tempest endured the nervous-looking man took a chair and sat silent.
To the House of Representatives of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the House of the 13th ultimo, requesting a statement of all the expenditures incident or relating to internal improvement for the years 1824 and 1825, I transmit reports from the Secretaries of the Treasury and of War, with documents, containing the statement desired. John Quincy Adams.
Her Majesty seldom did know anything of the day's program until she had consulted her secretaries, who, with dovetailing ingenuity, arranged her hours and booked to each day often many months in advance the engagements which lay ahead. Therein she showed a calmer and more philosophic temperament than her consort.
Anthony hastened round through the court between the hall and the river, and found the Archbishop walking up and down in his black habit with the round flapped cap, that, as a Puritan, he preferred to the square head-dress of the more ecclesiastically-minded clergy, still looking troubled and cast down, continually stroking his dark forked beard, and talking to one of his secretaries.
Madame Descoings knew Bridau, one of the secretaries of Roland, then minister of the interior, the right-hand man of all the ministers who succeeded each other in that office. She put Bridau on the war-path to save her grocer.
"May I speak to you alone an instant?" he said; and glanced at the secretaries, who rose and went out without a word. "You look unwell," said the old priest keenly, as he sat down. Monsignor waved a deprecatory hand. "Well I'm glad I caught you in time," went on the other. "I saw the man come in; and wondered whether you knew about him." "Mr. Hardy?" "Yes James Hardy."
I have need, in fact, of two private secretaries, and one will naturally succeed the other, when, as will probably be the case, in about six months the first is removed by appointment to a higher office. I will give you till to-morrow to consider, whether the post I now offer you is worth your acceptance.
"One day as he was, in the capacity of simple courtier, escorting the king, who was on his way to the Council, his Majesty said to him, "Marshal, come in; we are going to hold a council," and pointed to a place at his left, Cardinal Tencin being on his right. "This new minister does not please our secretaries of state.
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