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For two years or more he had been awaiting this very opportunity. Every Congressman once in four years has one of these cadetships to give to some young man. Sometimes the Congressman would give the chance to a boy of high social connections, or else to the son of an influential politician. A cadetship was a prize with which the Congress man too often paid his debts.
Well, it can't be helped. What will you do when the trial is over?" "I don't know." "Did Mr. Clive say anything about a cadetship?" "Not a word. He only said that I should get a share of the Gheria prize money." "That's something to the good. Use it wisely. I came out to Calcutta twenty years ago with next to nothing, and I've done well.
The English, as a practical, straightforward people, take money five to ten pounds being considered a fair thing for a vote, and no shame about it. The Scotch, as more calculating, like a situation; anything to put sons into, will do a cadetship in India, a tide-waitership, a place in the Post-office, or a commission in the army.
Because the boy had written that recruits were soon to be sent to cavalry regiments out on the plains, and he had asked to go. The thought was terror. And Mrs. Barnard had learned that a congressman from the interior of the State had a cadetship to dispose of, but he lived at Urbana, the very place where poor Harry had spent his two months in the retreat, and then had disbehaved so afterwards.
The present Lord Darrell gave up all idea of being an ambassador, but he was clever; and though he hurried to gratify a taste for pleasure which before had been too much mortified, he could not relinquish the ambitious prospects with which he had, during the greater part of his life, consoled himself for his cadetship. He piqued himself upon being at the same time a dandy and a statesman.
What are you going to do, now that you are a free man once more? Get another berth as supercargo?" His eyes twinkled as he said this. "No, thank you, sir; once bit twice shy. I haven't really thought of anything definite, but what I should like best of all would be a cadetship under Colonel Clive." "Soho! You're a fighter, are you? But of course you are; I have reason to know that.
He was neither a prig nor a "grind," but he regarded his cadetship as part of the life work which he had voluntarily chosen, and he had no inclination to let pleasure interfere with it.
They put up for the night at Brown's, and the next day Major Warfield, leaving his party at their hotel, called upon the President, the Secretary of the Navy and other high official dignitaries, and put affairs in such a train that he had little doubt of the ultimate appointment of his nephew to a cadetship at West Point.
Three others, Cilley, Benson and Sawtelle, were afterward members of the United States House of Representatives. Surely there must have been quite a fermentation of youthful intellect at Bowdoin between 1821 and 1825. Franklin Pierce was so deeply interested in military affairs that it was a pity he should not have had a West Point cadetship.
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