Magistrates, learned bodies, officers of the lower grades found their services honorably rewarded; no man employed by the government failed to obtain great consideration through the value and extent of his labors and the excellence of his salary; every one was able to provide for his own future and France was delivered from the cancer of pensions.
Madame Rabourdin, on her part, disconsolate over her wasted life, weary of secretly working to obtain a few luxuries of dress, never appeared so bitterly discontented as now; but, like any wife who is really attached to her husband, she considered it unworthy of a superior woman to condescend to the shameful devices by which the wives of some officials eke out the insufficiency of their husband's salary. This feeling made her refuse all intercourse with Madame Colleville, then very intimate with Francois Keller, whose parties eclipsed those of the rue Duphot.
Vail found himself painting brain-pictures of the future of the telephone, and by the time that he was asked to become its General Manager, he had become so confident that, as he said afterwards, he "was willing to leave a Government job with a small salary for a telephone job with no salary."
"How on earth do you expect me to meet a draft of two hundred and seventy-five dollars without a dollar in the treasury, and with a debt of thirty thousand dollars staring us in the face?" "Vail's salary is small enough," he continued in a second letter, "but as to where it is coming from I am not so clear.
madam," cried Emma, "if other children are at all like what I remember to have been myself, I should think five times the amount of what I have ever yet heard named as a
salary on such occasions, dearly earned."
The Legislature, therefore, endeavored to keep as much power as possible in their own hands, by refusing to settle a fixed salary upon the governors.
The Legislature had refused him a salary while alive; but they appropriated money enough to give him a splendid and pompous funeral."
It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the
salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
'With regard to the trifle of
salary that is due,' said Mr Wititterly, 'I will'--here he was interrupted by a violent fit of coughing--'I will--owe it to Miss Nickleby.'
The great continental hotels keep a cashier on a trifling
salary, and a portier WHO PAYS THE HOTEL A
SALARY.
The
salary's much lower, but he hopes to manage--a branch of Dempster's Bank.
He did not like frustrating his own best purposes by getting on bad terms with Bulstrode; he did not like voting against Farebrother, and helping to deprive him of function and
salary; and the question occurred whether the additional forty pounds might not leave the Vicar free from that ignoble care about winning at cards.
"To the Committee on Army Regulations, and I have recommended that your honor should be appointed a member, but without a
salary."
I have not been a professor for the sake of my
salary. I can get along very comfortably on my own income, and the
salary is all they can take away from me."
I dance during supper with nothing on my feet and not much anywhere else, and it takes three vans to carry my
salary to the bank.
