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"Surely; and for the whole empire," said Confucius. The Marquis made him, first Assistant-Superintendent of Works, then Minister of Crime. All these details were noted down by the love of his disciples, for whom nothing was too petty to be recorded; and if we cannot read them without smiling, there is this to remember: they have suffered sea-change on their way to us: sea-change and time-change.
During the long pause which followed, I knew that he was casting anxious glances at me. Finally he said, insinuatingly: "Er er William, during all the years that I have known you, it never occurred to me to ask you if you knew anything about cooking. But, of course, it is a foolish question to put to the assistant-superintendent of a railroad," he added deprecatingly.
The attack was sudden and unexpected; but the men of the baggage guard stood their way well. Captain Goad, assistant-superintendent of transport, was shot through the legs, and fell while fighting bravely.
That year, I was Assistant-Superintendent of the St. R.R., and was returning on Christmas eve from the annual inspection of the line, in company with the General Manager of the road, in the private car "St.
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