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"Gentlemen, I will have no quarrelling in my presence," he cried; "and I beg to inform Citizen Depeau that I bestow my commissions where it pleases me." Auguste de St. Gre rose, flushing, to his feet. "Citizens," he said, with a fluency that was easy for him, "I never mek secret of my history no. It is true my relation, Monsieur le Marquis de St.
She was more like a servant than a guest. She was completely at the beck and call of her hosts; now to ask for firewood; now if a meal was nearly ready; another time if the coach of so-and-so or such a one had returned; and so on, with a thousand little commissions which the use of bells, introduced a long time after, differently disposes of.
"Evidently she is coming round. Rhoda said that since she has heard that we have got our commissions she has given up prophesying once or twice a day that we shall come to a bad end probably hanging."
Three candidates were presented by the province for each office, from whom the stadholder appointed one. The commissions, except those of the highest commanders, were made out in the name of the States-General, by advice and consent of the council of state.
The two classes have been so thoroughly intermingled, on staff-duties and in the field, so many regular officers now hold in the volunteer service a rank higher than their permanent standing, the whole previous military experience of most regulars was so trifling, compared with that which they and the volunteers have now shared in common, and so many young men have lately been appointed to commissions, in both branches, not only without a West-Point education, but with almost none at all, that it really cannot be said that there is much feeling of conscious separation left.
These multiplied privations and sufferings soured the temper of the men, and it required all the influence of Washington to prevent many of the officers from resigning their commissions. The long continuance of want and hardship produced relaxation of discipline which at length manifested itself in open mutiny.
He went there as a representative of the whole town. Every one who needed assistance applied to him, and to each one he had promised to intercede for him. Laden with petitions and commissions from the magistracy, the merchants, and the citizens of Berlin, he entered the Russian general's quarters.
All aspirants for commissions in the United States army had to pass through West Point; and the training of the State colleges for Virginia was not solitary in the possession of such an institution however much it may have benefited both the minds and bodies of the rising generation, was of immediate value only to those who became officers of the State militia.
Though not yet thirty, he had directed first as his late father's assistant and afterwards as his successor the construction of the huge buildings erected by Cleopatra in Alexandria. Now he was overwhelmed with commissions; yet he had come hither ere the hours of work were over, merely to oblige a youth who had barely passed the confines of boyhood.
I thought I'd better tell you that first." She held out her hand without speaking. Jack gave it her, and addressed himself carefully to his cigarette. He didn't like this kind of thing at all, he wished Frank wouldn't give him unpleasant commissions. But, of course, it had to be done.
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