His statement seemed to her to be founded on some solid reality; but when she asked him what he was doing there, he spoilt it all by saying that as private secretary he was in charge of the expedition.
Do you remember how I asked him to be my private secretary?
You know I really am a little bit ashamed of having asked a great poet to be my private secretary.
He even found himself believing in his own delightful future as Miss Harden's private secretary, so entirely had he submitted to the empire of divine possibility.
As for myself, I had tendered my resignation of private secretary to Bonaparte; and even admitting I was in disgrace in that character, I was not so as Minister and Consul-General at Hamburg.
Wetterstedt, the King of Sweden's private secretary, with whom he was intimate, and from whom he showed me several letters, was of the same opinion on the subject as himself.
I wish you to relinquish, from this time, the functions and title of my private secretary.
The fact is," said the old gentleman, "I have a great mind to offer you the situation of my private secretary.
I have an idea of engaging Frank Courtney as a sort of private secretary, upon whom I can at any time call.
I am really Mr. Percival's private secretary, as I can prove to your satisfaction.
He obtained for his school friend, Herbert Grant, the post of private secretary to Mr. Percival, and Herbert became nearly as great a favorite as himself.
Frank had had some doubts as to how he would satisfy Mr. Percival in his capacity of private secretary.
Without any recognised position, Stockmar was destined to share with the Prime Minister one portion of the duties which ought to have devolved on a private secretary.
The man mistook his victim, and fatally wounded Sir Robert's private secretary, Mr. Drummond, who perished in the room of his chief.
In fact, the Prince was the Queen's private secretary in all save the name, uniting the two departments, political and social, of such an office which had hitherto been held separately by Lord Melbourne and Baroness Lehzen.
Once a week my private secretary comes to the club house from my office in the city.
I also presented a letter of introduction from that gentleman's private secretary, and I presume these London financiers called a meeting of the board of directors to consider this weighty matter.
To the Diary is subjoined the Correspondence of Evelyn with many of his distinguished contemporaries; also Original Letters from Sir Edward Nicholas, private secretary to King Charles I.
If this meets with no difficulty, he hopes likewise, upon inquiry, to find himself justified in allowing me a private secretary, at something less than that of a Secretary of Legation, which is a guinea per day.
I rode a good horse, and, in my capacity of Private Secretary or Orderly to our lame Captain, enjoyed unusual facilities.
As the company clerk, or private secretary of our Captain, I was pleasantly provided for in the First Sergeant's tent.
I'll show them what Mellinger, private secretary, means when you spell it with the cotton and tissue paper off.
It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property.
When I saw that Latin man I knew that Mellinger, private secretary, had all the dances on his card taken.
My job is private secretary to the president of this republic; and my duties are running it.
Once she said, in explanation of her friendliness: "I've never had anything but a machine for a private secretary before.
The position of myprivate secretary is a peculiar one, and difficult to fill.
Greville, Algernon, private secretary to the Duke of Wellington, iii.
I asked Lieven whether Francis Conyngham, in performing the other duties which had been hitherto allotted to Bloomfield, also exercised the functions of Private Secretary, because this involved a much more serious question.
Bliss, who had retired to Private Secretary Brown's cottage.
A brief outline of the results of the post-mortem examination was drawn up, signed by all the physicians, and handed to Private Secretary J.
The letter was evidently written late on the evening before he was shot, and was in the handwriting of the President's private secretary, but bore the clear signature of J.
If you will speak to him about it, and he likes it, I will appoint him one of the new clerks; and then, if he also likes it, he shall be my private secretary.
But it was not this permanent and substantial advantage which occasioned him such lively and such novel pleasure, as the fact of his being a private secretary, and a private secretary to a cabinet minister.
In cases where there seemed a ground for inquiry it was made, as carefully as possible, by the President's private secretary and by the War Department, but always without substantial results.
About the time the military court that tried Mrs. Surratt concluded its labors, I was, if I remember aright, for some days the only person acting as private secretary at the White House, my associate being absent on a visit.
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