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Perhaps I was staring dreamily into vacancy, for Salome said: "Bless me, I'm very glad to hear that his disposition is all right. But is the boy a fool? Why does he stand staring into vacancy like a brainless nincompoop?" I turned redder than ever and wondered at whom to look so as to avoid vacancy, and what to do with my hands.
And if you do it all right I can get you the whole of the holiday work on the column. That comes to a good lot in the year. We're always taking odd days off. Can you come up at a moment's notice?" "Easily," I said. "Then, you see, if you did that you would drop into the next vacancy on the column. There's no saying when one may occur. It's like the General Election.
It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either. We are curious as to death-beds and death-bed sayings; we wish to know how the matter stands; how the whole thing looks to the dying. Unhappily perhaps, on the whole, happily we can gather no information from these. The dying are nearly as reticent as the dead.
He seemed to think so too; he said that if the place had not just been filled, I should certainly have had it; and it was to his recollection of this prompt ambition of mine that I suppose I may have owed my succession to a like vacancy some four years later.
And when a vacancy occurred in the office of Sheriff, the inhabitants of the same County, thinking that "the best method of recommending a suitable person for that office was to elect one at their annual township meeting," voted for Mr. David Gillilan as their choice.
Certainly it was neither the design nor the effect of this rule to occasion a constant interference of the senate with the resolutions of the burgesses, and by such guardianship to divest them of their sovereign power; but, as in the event of a vacancy in the supreme office the senate secured the continuance of the constitution, we find it here also as the shield of legal order in opposition even to the supreme power the community.
It informed me that Senator Sargent, his close friend, had secured for me the appointment of Register of the Land Office at Humboldt. There had been a vacancy for some time, resulting from reduction in the pay from $3000 in gold to $500 in greenbacks, together with commissions, which were few. My father thought it would be good experience for me and advised my acceptance.
The figure terminated at its upper extremity in a large, smooth, white round face like a moon encircled by a cap and green ribbons, and dimly irradiated by eyes of mild and faded blue, which looked straightforward into vacancy, and took not the smallest notice of Magdalen's appearance, on the opening of the door. "Mrs. Wragge!" cried the captain, shouting at her as if she was fast asleep. "Mrs.
Ulpius had stood unnoticed by her side. At this moment he moved so as to confront her, and she suddenly looked up at him. A momentary expression of bewilderment and suspicion lightened the heavy vacancy of despair which had chased their natural and feminine tenderness from her eyes, but it disappeared rapidly.
'They're like wild beasts in a cage, he said in the loud voice of his anger. 'Can you stand it? 'Oh, yes yes. Let us sit here, in this corner. He was ridiculous, she thought, yet to-night, unconscious of any absurdity himself, he had a dignity; he was not so ugly as she had thought; his somewhat protruding eyes had less vacancy, and though his tie was crooked, she was not ashamed of him.
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