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I am very sure that states do sometimes receive services which it is hardly in their power to reward according to their worth. If I were to give my judgment with regard to this country, I do not think the great efficient offices of the state to be overpaid. The service of the public is a thing which cannot be put to auction, and struck down to those who will agree to execute it the cheapest.
It had been easy how easy it had been! to catch the likeness of those formative times in which he had lived and wrought; but the triumph and the reward of the new artist would be in proportion to the difficulty of seizing the rich, self-satisfied, ambitionless, sordid commonplace of a society wishing to be shut up in a steam-heated, electric-lighted palace and fed fat in its exclusiveness with the inexhaustible inventions of an overpaid chef.
'Yes, that fellow's compliments are like a cabman's, and cry fool: he never thanks you but when he's overpaid. Captain Bulsted applauded the sarcasm. 'Why did you keep out of knowledge all this time, Hal? my grandfather asked. I referred him to the captain. 'Hang it, cried Captain Bulsted, 'do you think I'd have been doing duty for you if I'd known where to lay hold of you.
The child put her arms around my neck and clung to me for a moment. There could have been no better antidote for my mood of irritable protest against my fate than the child's warm and innocent embrace, and for a moment it was balm indeed. "There," I cried, kissing her twice, "now I'm overpaid." Raising my eyes, I met those of Miss Warren as she sat by her piano.
"Dear me, Ned, what a gallant speech!" she said, flushing with delight; "you deserve a reward:" and she held up her face for a kiss. "I am overpaid," he said, when he had bestowed it. "In spite of the coin being such as you have a right to help yourself to whenever you will?" she returned with a merry laugh.
Here, lad, here be silver groshen, one for every acorn on that gallows tree; and here is one more for thee, who wilt doubtless be there in due season." The man took the coins, but still lingered. "Well! what now?" cried Gerard, who thought him shamefully overpaid already. "Dost seek the hide off our bones?" "Nay, good sirs, but you have seen to-night how parlous a life is mine.
You may persuade me conceivably or you may eject me with violence." "Oh, no!" she interposed quickly. "There will be no violence. Only we shall gradually reduce your wages. Of course, we can't do without leaders we don't want to do away with the captains of any industry, agricultural or manufacturing. Only we think you overpaid. You must be content with less."
I gave him one of the gold pieces that Earl Wulfnoth had taken from the treasure for me, and the man weighed it, wondering at its weight and fineness. Then he said that he was overpaid, and must give me money for the overweight, and asked that one should go back to his house with him and return with it. "There were men lurking in the porches and on the bridge," he said, "when I came down here.
Anne was at once a Protestant and an Englishwoman. Under her government the country would be in no danger of being overrun either by Jesuits or by Dutchmen. That Marlborough had the strongest motives for placing her on the throne was evident. He could never, in the court of her father, be more than a repentant criminal, whose services were overpaid by a pardon.
"This is for four pictures, not two," he said, shaking his head; and then, with his characteristic conceit, he added: "Well, some years hence the world shall not call them overpaid. Adieu, my Medici; a dozen such men, and Art would revive in England."
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