All 4 Uses of
vocation
in
The Remains of the Day
- And let me tell you, if you were to have come into our servants' hall on any of those evenings, you would not have heard mere gossip; more likely, you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs, or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers; and of course, as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together, we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation.†
Chpt Prol.vocation = a particular type of job
- When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants' hall — I mean of the calibre of, say, Mr Graham, with whom now, sadly, I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation.†
Chpt 1e - *
- And of course, any butler who regards his vocation with pride, any butler who aspires at all to a 'dignity in keeping with his position', as the Hayes Society once put it, should never allow himself to be 'off duty' in the presence of others.†
Chpt 3e -
- In the end, after some consideration, I said: "As far as I am concerned, Miss Kenton, my vocation will not be fulfilled until I have done all I can to see' his lordship through the great tasks he has set himself.†
Chpt 3e -