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Updated: June 15, 2025
"The King of Wurtemberg, and two of the Bavarian royal Princes, an Abyssinian Envoy who is over here he will lend a touch of picturesque barbarism to the scene the general commanding the London district and a whole lot of other military bigwigs, and the Austrian, Italian and Roumanian military attaches." She reeled off the imposing list of notables with an air of quiet satisfaction.
There were three seated at the table, and none of the three was the Postmaster-General. Two of them were obviously bigwigs so big, at any rate, that his fate lay in their hands; and the other one was a secretary not the General Secretary not even a gentleman, if one could draw any inference from his deferential tone and the casual manner in which the others addressed him.
"Well, my dear sir," said the Duc de Grandlieu, "I am told that you have bought the estate of Rubempre. I congratulate you. It is an answer to those who say you are in debt. We bigwigs, like France or England, are allowed to have a public debt; but men of no fortune, beginners, you see, may not assume that privilege " "Indeed, Monsieur le Duc, I still owe five hundred thousand francs on my land."
The monetary union in the USA the US dollar as a single legal tender printed exclusively by a central monetary authority is, therefore, a fairly recent thing, not much older than the euro. It is common to confuse the logistics of a monetary union with its underpinnings. European bigwigs gloated over the smooth introduction of the physical notes and coins of their new currency.
It was generally understood that Joe might have been anything he liked, and that he was no man's enemy but his own. It was also hinted that he could tell the bigwigs a thing or two if he had been consulted in affairs of State.
Cochrane, who asked me to dinner, where I met the Governor and some more bigwigs. The Admiral’s secretary, Maxwell, who appeared to have a snug berth in the country, requested me to dine with him the day after, and he sent a kittereen, or one-horse gig, for me. I met at dinner some brother officers and a few military men.
And he said: "By the way, your aunt's 'Bigwigs' set in on a Saturday. Are you for staying and seeing the lions feed, or do we cut back?" From Alan he got the answer he expected: "If there's golf or something, I suppose we can make out all right." From Nedda: "What sort of Bigwigs are they, Dad?" "A sort you've never seen, my dear." "Then I should like to stay. Only, about dresses?"
There was never any merriment at the sales after he had begun to wield the hammer; but he had the faculty of making folks long to get possession of a lot of old junk and inducing a couple of bigwigs to bid against each other on things they had no earthly use for, simply to show that money was no object to them. And he managed to dispose of everything at all auctions at which he served.
Nevertheless, a hint at abolition would have been blasphemy, and however eager the rank and file of the establishment may have been for the disappearance of the bigwigs, not one of them and still more not one of their many invited neighbours ever breathed a hint of it to another.
They stopped me to tell of the great tidings just come by swift post-riders of the fight at Lexington. After giving me the full details, Wilson left us. Said Graydon? very serious: "Mr. Wynne, how long are you to be in deciding? Come and join Mr. Cadwalader's troop. Few of us ride as well as you." I said I had been thinking. "Oh, confound your thinkings! It is action now. Let the bigwigs think."
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