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Updated: May 14, 2025
Because you were good enough to bring him yourself to the inn? I will obey you, excellency, but we have no half roubles to spare. If we take to giving gratuities to everybody we shall end by dying of hunger." I could not dispute the point with Savéliitch; my money, according to my solemn promise, was entirely at his disposal.
That, before the appointment of the Governor-General and Council of Fort William by act of Parliament, the allowances made by the East India Company to the Presidents of that government were abundantly sufficient; and that the said Presidents in general, and the said Warren Hastings particularly, was restrained by a specific covenant and indenture, which he entered into with the Company, from accepting any gifts, rewards, or gratuities whatsoever, on any account or pretence whatsoever.
Yet think you that, when all things needful boots and the rest have been paid for, much will remain? Yet I ought not to grumble at my salary, I am quite satisfied with it; it is sufficient. It has sufficed me now for some years, and, in addition, I receive certain gratuities. Well good-bye, my darling. I have bought you two little pots of geraniums quite cheap little pots, too as a present.
The last time Madame de Montespan went to Bourbon she paid all her charitable pensions and gratuities two years in advance and doubled her alms. Although in good health she had a presentiment that she should return no more. This presentiment, in effect, proved correct.
Nothing had ever occurred to change the monotonous order of his existence, for no event affected him except the work of his office, perquisites, gratuities, and promotion. He never spoke of anything but of his duties, either at the Admiralty or at home, for he had married the portionless daughter of one of his colleagues.
Why use for men's intellects, which are claimed to be stronger, the forcing process, offering, for instance, many thousand dollars a year in gratuities at our colleges, that young men may be induced to come and learn, and only withhold assistance from the weaker minds of women?
Courteous Boer officials entered the train and requested the passengers to disembark with all their luggage, for the purpose of custom-examination. No gratuities were accepted there, as at Lorenzo Marques, and nothing escaped the vigilance of the bearded inspectors.
The following day he sent out a second circular forbidding all associations of government employees as illegal. He dismissed one hundred and eighty postmen, reinstated them, reprimanded them and awarded them gratuities. At Cabinet councils he was always on the point of bursting forth.
Mr Whyte heard the old man to the end in silence; then, without altering his position, he looked round on the assembly with a frown, and said, "Now listen to me; I am a man of few words. I have told you over and over again, and now repeat it, that you shall get no gratuities until you prove yourselves worthy of them.
Only such, it appeared, could be members of the exclusive Geneva Club that procured a place for you when you were idle, and paid you eight dollars a week when you were sick. Having the qualifications, one could earn twenty-five dollars a month in salary and three or four times as much in gratuities.
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