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The task of the black guards who accompany these houris is anything but a sinecure, and "nods and becks and wreathed smiles" are freely bestowed on the male passers-by in spite of etiquette and eunuchs.
At another time we learn that the King of Denmark had recognised the talents of his illustrious subject, and promised to confer on him a pleasant sinecure in the shape of a canonry, which would assist him with the means for indulging his scientific pursuits.
He sold the appointment as Referendary; and then the Baron de la Baudraye called on his last remaining debtors, and reappeared at Sancerre as Master of Appeals, with an appointment as Royal Commissioner to a commercial association established in the Nivernais, at a salary of six thousand francs, an absolute sinecure.
His own position as secretary being but a sinecure, the young man readily attributed de Chavasse's interest in himself to innate goodness of heart, and desire to help the poor orphan lad. This estimate of his employer's character Richard Lambert had not felt any cause to modify.
"Objection!" he faltered, "you know very well what my objection is. It is not honest work it is no work. It is a waste of money that might be better employed; it is a sinecure." "And what do you call your nominal curateship," said his father, "is not that a sinecure too?"
He was brought to trial with the more evident agents in the fraud, and the whole history of the French Parliaments scarcely records any transaction more disgraceful than his acquittal. But, in truth, under Marie Antoinette the office was almost a sinecure.
Whoever is appointed Short, Carmichael, Madison, or myself will have no sinecure in France. Unhappy country! The closet philosophers who are trying to rule it are absolutely bewildered, and I know not what will save the state unless it be a foreign war." "'Tis the general opinion here among the ministers that the Emperor is too cautious ever to engage in that war, however," said Calvert.
"I know you think so. It is a sinecure." "Well, I think they may say their prayers for themselves; a young man like you, full of talent, full of capability I beg your pardon," said Northcote, "you must excuse me, I grudge the waste. There are so many things more worthy of you that you might do." "What, for example?" "Anything almost," cried the other; "digging, ploughing, building anything!
As the Mexican government did not own a canoe, and as there was at that time no serious likelihood of its ever owning a battle-ship, this sinecure caused no little merriment among us, and many were the practical jokes of which the hapless cabinet officer was the victim. His quarters were situated one block below our house, in the Calle de Espiritu Santo.
Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision; and her company was the fat spaniel in the drawing-room, or occasionally the discontented Firkin in the housekeeper's closet. Nor though the old lady would by no means hear of Rebecca's departure, was the latter regularly installed in office in Park Lane.
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