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Mr. Wyse's memorandum on education led, as is well known, to the creation of the Board of National Education, but, to quote Dr. Starkie, the present Resident Commissioner of the Board, 'the more important part of the scheme, dealing with a university and secondary education, was shelved, in spite of Mr.
The Navy Department was, however, anxious to give him employment, and in default of anything else he served for a time as a member of the Naval Retiring Board, which shelved the incompetent officers of the navy, and promoted the active, loyal, and deserving.
I telephoned, and your servant, who answered me, said that you were expected back at any moment. Then I came myself." "You cannot imagine that I am not glad to see you," he said earnestly. "I want to believe that you are glad," she answered. "I have been restless ever since you left. Tell me at once, what did they say to you here?" "I am practically shelved," he told her bitterly.
While he was trying to find out what had become of all the things there were to say in the world, a maid came in with an astonishing object a small, red, shelved table on wheels, laden with silver vessels, and cake, and sandwiches that were amazingly small and thin. The maid was so starched that she creaked.
He was to meet them at Charing Cross on the morrow: his younger brother, who had married before him, but whose wife, of Hebrew race, with a portion that had gilded the pill, was not in a condition to travel; his sister and her husband, the most anglicised of Milanesi, his maternal uncle, the most shelved of diplomatists, and his Roman cousin, Don Ottavio, the most disponible of ex-deputies and of relatives a scant handful of the consanguineous who, in spite of Maggie's plea for hymeneal reserve, were to accompany him to the altar.
He was no recluse, but a man of the world a man who had clearly moved amongst men and women and held his place with ease. The idea that he was a boor had been entirely shelved. But why that brusque, boorish disappearance from Arles? Elaine, thinking matters over in the solitude of her room on the evening of the second encounter, was beginning to regret her resolve to humble John Rivière.
It stretched before us for a hundred yards or more and then shelved gently into the white waters. Opposite not a mile away was that prodigious web of woven rainbows Rador had called the Veil of the Shining One. There it shone in all its unearthly grandeur, on each side of the Cyclopean pillars, as though a mountain should stretch up arms raising between them a fairy banner of auroral glories.
Lonely, inscrutable, the great mass stood, slightly shelved here and there to harbour rank and blossomy growths of green and presenting a rugged beauty of outline, but apparently as uninhabitable as the land of the North Silences. Consternation and amazement sat upon the faces of the owner of The Aloha and his guests as they realized the character of the remarkable island. St.
So in the two Congresses the notables talked, in the one those who ought to be shelved, in the other those who were shelved already, while those who were too thoroughly shelved for a seat in either addressed Great Union Meetings at home.
Very good the other members have shelved Chatfield. They've done with him. But not if he knows it! That man will hunt the Pike and her people whoever they are relentlessly when he gets off this." "I wish we knew what it is that we're on!" said Copplestone. "Impossible till daybreak," replied Vickers.
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