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I trust that, despite the excitement of the early part of the night, you have enjoyed a very good rest." "Good-morning, Don Miguel. Yes; I managed rather well with my sleep, all things considered." "You mustn't call me 'Don Miguel," he reminded her, with a faint smile. "I am only Don Miguel to the Indians and pelados and a few of my father's old Spanish friends who are sticklers for etiquette.
The typewriter had not then been invented, so everything was copied by hand a wearisome and deadening occupation where very lengthy documents were concerned. The older men in the Foreign Office were great sticklers for observing all the traditional forms. Lord Granville, in obedience to political pressure, had appointed the son of a leading politician as one of his unpaid private secretaries.
As she looked at it attentively, the color slowly faded from her face. "Or else what?" she inquired. Martin shrugged his shoulders. "Well, Kosmaroff is not a man to stick at trifles." "You mean," said Wanda, who would have things plainly, "that he would assassinate him?" Wanda glanced at her father. She knew that men hard pressed are no sticklers.
They used oil in the ancient temple, and it was that which ran down on Aaron's beard, and anything that was good enough for the whiskers of an old-time priest was good enough for a country meeting-house. These sticklers for the oil were present that night, hoping and I think some of them secretly praying that the gas might go out.
Gladstone, the stiffest of sticklers for official reticence, held that a Cabinet Minister might impart his secrets to his wife and his Private Secretary. The wives of official men are not always as trustworthy as Mrs. Bucket in Bleak House, and some of the Private Secretaries in the Government of 1880 were little more than boys.
Without appearing to notice the slight challenge in Pendleton's tone, Paul returned, "I am glad to hear it. The more particularly as, I believe, the Germans are great sticklers for position and pedigree."
False Charity hates to be in a minority you never find it in an unrespectable minority, it wants company, and that of a respectable, genteel kind. Its possessors are always sticklers for the traditions of the elders; their horizon is bounded very largely by the opinions of men and the attitude of the rulers. They are always asking, "Have any of the rulers believed on Him?"
These sticklers for individualism and fearing souls could not see that the central clearing-house, which the people of the respective States were creating, could not be confined to a few expressed powers; that unseen situations and sudden emergencies would call for action not specified; that to make a list of allowable acts in advance was simply an impossibility.
A lady's card should be larger, but not glazed or ornamented in any way. It is a rule with sticklers for good-breeding that after any entertainment a gentleman should leave his card in person, although, as we have said, he often commits it to some feminine agency.
"I wish dogs weren't such sticklers for form," thought Aubrey. "Now if I went in by the front door, Bock wouldn't say anything. It's just because he sees me coming in this way that he's annoyed. Well, I'll have to take a chance." He thrust his legs in through the window, carefully holding up the sash with its jagged triangles of glass.
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