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Rawlence certainly does get all the most interesting people at his place. Landon, the painter, was deep in conversation with Mr. Freydon. No, I don't know what Mr. Freydon does some secretarial appointment, I fancy. He's evidently a great friend of Rawlence's. It is surprising that I can set these things down with no particular sense of shame.
One called her very distinctly "My dear!" Two secretarial posts did indeed seem to offer themselves in which, at least, there was no specific exclusion of womanhood; one was under a Radical Member of Parliament, and the other under a Harley Street doctor, and both men declined her proffered services with the utmost civility and admiration and terror.
"Under different circumstances it might have done so," he replied, "but we have seen Miss Armitage several times she is quite a young girl, not at all of the 'literary' type, though she is very careful and accurate in her secretarial work I mean as regards business letters and attention to detail. But at her age she could not have had the scholarship to produce such a book.
Henry had gone, and the best hopes of the new dependency departed with him never to return again. Fourteen years later he despatched his son John, then a youth of nineteen, with a train of courtiers, and amongst them our friend Giraldus, who appeared to have been sent over in some sort of tutorial or secretarial capacity. The expedition was a disastrous failure.
For many years in India I directed administration on the largest scale, and I know that if you send me to Ireland the opportunity of mere secretarial criticism would fall short of the requirements of my position.
In the routine of her secretarial duties she had, one morning, opened and read a letter, not marked "Private" or "Personal," whose tenor she could scarcely understand. When she handed it to her father, he smiled, vouchsafed a specious explanation, and looked at her in just the same crafty and ignoble fashion, and she shrank away frightened. The matter kept her awake for a couple of nights.
Lamont says of the President at Paris: "I never saw a man more ready and anxious to consult than he.... President Wilson did not have a well-organized secretarial staff. He did far too much of the work himself, studying until late at night papers and documents that he should have largely delegated to some discreet aides.
But now that you are confidential secretary and adviser to a Shropshire Psmith, the thing must stop. Your secretarial duties must be paramount. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with them. Yes. The thing must stop before it goes too far. 'It seems to me, said Mike, 'that it has gone too far. I've got the sack. I don't know how much farther you want it to go.
'Ah! He stroked his beard. 'You are busy? 'Terribly busy, said the Rev. Elkan Gabriel. 'Even on Sunday? 'Rather! It's my day for secretarial work, as there's no school. 'Poor Mr. Gabriel. I at least have Sunday to myself. But you have to work Saturday and Sunday too. It's really too bad. 'Eh, said the minister blankly. 'Oh, of course I know you must work on the Sabbath.
The chats we have had over plays, play writing, producing. Your own fine aim. Oh, it has made bearable even the monotony of the secretarial end of it!" "I am afraid your secretarial services are about to be dispensed with." She placed a quick hand to her heart. "What do you mean?" He flecked his cigar, laughing over at her. "You're delicious.
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