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In the mourning and other duties rendered to a deceased father or mother, he allowed no difference between the noble and the mean.
The change from his full and stimulating life in London to the dull round of clerical duties in a Yorkshire village might well have been depressing to a mind better balanced and ballasted than his. To him, with his light, pleasure-loving nature, it was as the return of the schoolboy from pantomimes and pony-riding to the more sober delights of Dr.
One of them said: 'General, our duties as members of the Cabinet make it very desirable for us to have some idea of what the probable range and course of the war will be, that we may guide ourselves accordingly.
They were more specific in saying that "the judges of the Territory, as it now is, and also the Governor, district attorney, and marshal, are entirely unable to perform their respective duties in all parts of the Territory."
"What do you want fifty cents for?" demanded his uncle, frowning. "I want to go to the Grand Opera House to-night. I haven't been to the theater for two weeks." "And you can't expect to while you are not earning anything." "But that isn't my fault," pleaded John. "Yes, it is. You neglected your duties at Flint's, and he saw it. That is why you lost your place."
Gradually new impressions and new duties succeeded; and, ere four months elapsed, the quiet monotony of my daily life healed up the wounds of my suffering, and a sense of content, if not of happiness, crept gently over me, and I ceased to long for the clash of arms and the loud blast of the trumpet.
I did not declare it because I did not believe it. But I thought that the end aimed at the breaking up of large estates could be better and more safely effected, though not so quickly, by a change in the incidence of succession duties.
He was the Captain's Clerk: that is to say, the junior accountant officer, detailed by the Captain to conduct his official correspondence and perform secretarial work generally. The position is not one commonly sought after, but Double-O Gerrard appeared to enjoy his duties, and as a badge of office carried a perpetual inkstain on the forefinger-tip of his right hand.
He has his Empire to engage him, and fill his hours with duties; I have God to serve and obey with singleness. Out of the prison where my mother died, and in which my father grew old counting his years as they slowly wore away, a shadow issued, and is always at hand to ask me, 'Who art thou?
Mary's, to the neglect of its direct duties, for objects not belonging to it; I am converting a parochial charge into a sort of University office. "I think I may say truly that I have begun scarcely any plan but for the sake of my parish, but every one has turned, independently of me, into the direction of the University.
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