"Viceroyship" Quotes from Famous Books
... claimed, with naive simplicity as "Mary Leiter's husband," and let it go at that. A person of extraordinary ability was this husband of an American queen, and it is generally believed that he may some day be prime minister of England. The viceroyship is the highest appointive office in the world. Its compensation is the equivalent of $80,000 per annum, but the allowances for entertaining European functionaries, an army of native servants, and a stableful ... — East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield |