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These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam in person, attended by two under-secretaries and several persons of distinction.
Let every one, up to the under-secretaries of state and members of the cabinet even, be examined and tested and docketed in due order of merit in the same way as the Chinese conduct their mandarin school and distribute variously coloured buttons to graduates of different degrees, letting "the best man win," in accordance with the old motto of the now extinct "Prize Ring."
I judge, therefore, that our official aid to the conspirators was limited to the Under-Secretaries of the Foreign, War, and Admiralty Offices. Moreover, the royalist plans, as revealed to our officials, mainly concerned a rising in Normandy and Brittany.
Nothing leaked out at the time as to the cause, but it was understood later that a crisis was narrowly averted at a very inopportune season, for the heads of the departments were all away, the President was at his summer home in the North, and even some of the under-secretaries were out of town. Hasty messages had been sizzling over the wires in cipher and code for hours.
Monsieur and Madame Rabourdin, one of the under-secretaries in Monsieur de la Billardiere's division; Monsieur Cochin, same division, his wife and son, sleeping-partners of Matifat, and Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle Matifat themselves." "The Matifats," said Cesarine, "are fishing for invitations for Monsieur and Madame Colleville, and Monsieur and Madame Thuillier, friends of theirs."
Rodney fancied that this was the correct and fashionable title of an under-secretary of state. Mr. Waldershare was going to make a collection of portraits of Under-Secretaries for Foreign Affairs whose chiefs had been in the House of Lords. It would be a collection of the most eminent statesmen that England had ever produced.
He had been there for forty years, and for many sessions past had been the salvation of Parliamentary secretaries and under-secretaries. He was the uncle of an earl, and the brother-in-law of a duke and a marquis. Not to know Brown was, at the West End, simply to be unknown. Brooks's was proud of him; and without him the 'Travellers'' would not have been such a Travellers' as it is. But Mr.
These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam in person attended by two under-secretaries, and several persons of distinction.
She shrugged her shoulders good-humoredly. "Oh! I know of course I know. Is it as good as you expected?" "As good as " The young man opened his mouth in wonder. "What right had I to expect anything?" "How modest! All the same, they want you and they're very glad to get you. But you can't save them." "That's not generally expected of Under-Secretaries, is it?" "A good deal's expected of you.
My advice to you, as Lawrence would say," referring to one of his under-secretaries, a college mate and intimate friend of Edestone's, "is to 'can that high-brow stuff' and come down to earth." "Now, speaking for myself as your friend, I advise you to go and see General von Lichtenstein, whom you will find a delightful old gentleman but as wise as Solomon's aunt.
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