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"I don't see that it matters much to me, and the letter you have in your possession from the Under-Secretary is sufficient warrant for me to give you any assistance that lies in my power." He glanced at his watch. "It is just about time for déjeûner," he continued. "What do you say if we drive to the Rue Barbette at once?"
Meanwhile, M. Richard was bending and bowing and scraping and walking backward, just as if he had that high and mighty minister, the under-secretary for fine arts, before him.
The circumstance of Mrs. Brunel's brother being Under-Secretary to the Navy Board at the time, probably led Brunel in the first instance to offer his invention to the Admiralty.
The chairman leaned forward in his seat, looked the under-secretary full in the face, and said, quite sharply and suddenly: "Where were you, Mr. Raikes, on the same afternoon?" "I, sir?" "You, Mr. Raikes. Where were you on the afternoon and evening of the 4th of the present month?" "Here, sir, in Mr. Hunter's office. Where else should I be?"
At the General's instigation I was transferred to the Ministry of War as an under-secretary in his Cabinet, and he sent me on account of my knowledge of Italian upon a confidential mission to Milan.
In a letter to the under-secretary of the Admiralty, he says, "My dear Jackson, you must allow me to interest your humanity in favour of poor Spicer, who, overwhelmed with dropsy, asthma, and a large family, and with nothing but his pay to support him under those afflictions, is appointed to the under a mean man, and very likely to go to the East Indies.
You must set whole nations moving, as the Zulu under Tchaka flowed over South Africa. 'It cannot be done, said the Under-Secretary. 'It can be done, I said quietly. 'We two are here to do it. This kind of talk was jolly difficult for me, chiefly because of Stumm's asides in German to the official.
Ferrars made his way; for two years he was occasionally asked by the minister to speak, and then Lord Castlereagh, who liked young men, made him a Lord of the Treasury. He was Under-Secretary of State, and "very rising," when the death of Lord Liverpool brought about the severance of the Tory party, and Mr. Ferrars, mainly under the advice of zealots, resigned his office when Mr.
There was present on the Committee a young Parliamentary Under-Secretary, who with much attention had studied the subject of the Court of Chancery in the Mandarins, and who had acknowledged to his superiors in the office that it certainly was of all legislative assemblies the most awkward and complicated.
Doris rose, her lips breaking irrepressibly into smiles. "Never mind, Arthur; I'll get through somehow." The two ladies advanced towards each other across the lawn, while Meadows followed his wife in speechless confusion and annoyance, utterly at a loss how to extricate either himself or Doris; compelled, indeed, to leave it all to her. Sir Luke and the Under-Secretary had paused in the drive.
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