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At the end, on a platform before a bookcase, sit the six examiners in red robes, capes with three bands of ermine, and gold-laced caps. Between the candidate's desk and the door is a little enclosure for spectators, of whom there were about thirty when I entered. My performance, which had a chance of being brilliant, was only fair.
Harley glanced again at Jimmy Grayson, but the candidate's lids were lowered, and no flash came from his eye. "I put it forward in a tentative way," he said, in the same mild and musing tone. "Of course, I may be mistaken. I have received many telegrams from important people asking how I stand, and I notice that the press is discussing the same question very actively."
Hazing, after all, is designed, primarily, to bring out a candidate's character.
At the end, on a platform before a bookcase, sit the six examiners in red robes, capes with three bands of ermine, and gold-laced caps. Between the candidate's desk and the door is a little enclosure for spectators, of whom there were about thirty when I entered. My performance, which had a chance of being brilliant, was only fair.
Somehow or other he has got the committee to put him on the programme right after you, and he says he is going to demolish what he calls your fallacies." Harley saw the candidate's lips curve a little, as if he were about to smile, but the movement was quickly checked. Jimmy Grayson would not willingly hurt the feelings of any man. "Your boy has that right," he said to Mr. Moore.
The reason for a written competitive entrance examination is that it is impossible for the head of the office, or the candidate's prospective immediate superior, himself to know the average candidate or to test his ability. But when once in office the best way to test any man's ability is by long experience in seeing him actually at work.
No further mention was made of the miraculous vote which had risen responsive to the candidate's address of its own inspired motion; so Beauchamp said, 'I beg you to bear in mind that I request you not to plump. 'You may be right, Captain Beauchamp. Good day, sir. Palmet strode after Beauchamp into the street. 'Why did you set me bowing to that old boy? he asked.
"Where's your great speaker?" asked Harley, with irony. But the crowded audience was oblivious. It heard only the music of the candidate's voice and felt only the spell of his manner; therefore, it was with a sort of contempt that it looked upon Lee, the young lawyer without a case, who rose to reply.
As they were NOT voting for our candidate, they were able to meet him in a fair and friendly way, whereas William and Jasper and Edward and our "bunch" were always surly and hardly deigned to give more than a growl in answer to the candidate's greeting, without even looking up at him. But a Liberal voter would stop him in the street and shake hands and say in a frank, cordial way. "Mr.
"It is early, I know, Ka'ruchaya, and everyone is curious " "As curious as we are about any candidate's experiences," Yarra agreed. "Still, I am sure further questions can wait until tomorrow." Tarlac gave her a grateful smile. "Thanks, Ka'ruchaya. I am pretty tired, and I've been looking forward to a sleeping mat. I could use a long, hot shower, too."
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