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“I have here some of your reports,” said the bureaucrat in an unexpectedly soft and weary voice, and pressing the tip of his forefinger on the papers with force.
Solomin." Solomin continued smiling. "What makes you think so, Mr. Kolomentzev?" "Then please explain what you meant just now!" "With pleasure. I think that every bureaucrat is an outsider and was always such. The nobility have now become 'outsiders." Kollomietzev laughed louder than ever. "But, my dear sir, I really don't understand what you mean!" "So much the worse for you.
The truth is that scientific lawyers have seldom been very favourable to popular government; and when the scientific lawyer is doubled with the Indian bureaucrat, we are pretty sure beforehand that in such a tribunal it will go hard with democracy. That the author extremely dislikes and suspects the new order, he does not hide either from himself or us.
Presently there entered a tall, thin, iron-gray gentleman, the very type of a Prussian bureaucrat. Walking with quick nervous steps to his desk he acknowledged our bows with a curt nod and turning to Stammer he said: "Well, Stammer?" "This is Dr. Graver, your Excellency." "Ah, yes. Sehr schön. Convey my thanks to Captain Tappken, Stammer."
When von Bethmann-Hollweg showed an inclination towards Liberalism, and advocated a juster electoral system for Prussia, the Junkers, the military and the upholders of the caste system joined their forces to those of the usual intriguers; and it was only a question of time until the Chancellor's official head fell in the basket. His successor is a Prussian bureaucrat.
It was the "sun-dried bureaucrat" again who in regard to Indian industries as well as to Indian agriculture preached and practised sound Swadeshi before the word had ever been brought into vogue by the Indian politician. The veteran Sir George Birdwood, Sir George Watt, Sir Edward Buck, and many others have stood forth for years as the champions of Indian art and Indian home industries.
He spent five hours a day at his office in the Ministry, in the afternoon he rowed on the Seine, in the evening he wrote. After he had resigned as a bureaucrat he worked from seven until twelve every morning, no matter the excesses of the previous night; the afternoon he spent on the river, retiring very late. "Toujours les femmes, petit cochon," wrote Flaubert in 1876, "il faut travailler."
Petersburg, in his department, or maybe in higher quarters, but it produced no effect whatever on Solomin. "The nobility cannot manage these things," Solomin repeated. "But why, I should like to know? Why?" Kollomietzev almost shouted. "Because there is too much of the bureaucrat about them." "Bureaucrat?" Kollomietzev laughed maliciously. "I don't think you quite realise what you're saying, Mr.
I found Prätorius in the irritable mood of an old man awakened at an untimely moment, who had besides all the aversion of an old bureaucrat to a young man of birth. He said, with a contemptuous smile, "It is very annoying, Herr Referendarius, when a man can do nothing for himself; I will show you how to do it." I returned with him into the judge's room.
"Quite," answered Paul; "and it is the obvious duty of those who know better to teach the dog to avoid the places where the traps are set. Thanks, the olives are excellent." "Ah!" said Vassili, turning courteously to Maggie, "I sometimes thank my star that I am not a landholder only a poor bureaucrat. It is so difficult to comprehend these questions, mademoiselle.
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