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Butler was a literary man, and his snug sitting-room was fitted with books and easy chairs a piano also, upon which he was no mean performer. The station hands comprised a shepherd, bullock driver, hutkeeper, and two station hands employed in fencing in paddocks, which with Cook, the overseer, Butler, and myself made up the total.
"Really, Mr Butler," answered Harry, "I am awfully sorry if I have put you out at all, but I thought that so long as I was on board in time to start with the ship it would be sufficient. As it is I am more than an hour to the good; for, as you are aware, the ship does not haul out of dock until midday. Have you been wanting me for anything in particular?" "No, I have not," snapped Butler.
Evidently the latter, as I had barely touched the bell when the door flew open. Two liveried attendants were within, one turned the door knob and the other presented his tray for the cards, while in the distance a third, wearing the dress of a butler or majordomo, stood by closed portières. We had asked for Mrs. and Miss Latham, and evidently the combination caused confusion.
When the governor-elect and his bride entered the Rockharrt town house, they were received by a group of obsequious servants, headed by Jason, the butler, and Jane, the housekeeper, and among whom stood Martha, lady's maid to the new Mrs. Rothsay. "Will you come into the drawing room and rest, dear, before going upstairs?" inquired Mr.
He had just finished this meal, and was congratulating himself on not being obliged to spend the evening in a series of painful interviews, as had happened the night before, when Parker, the butler, entered the room. 'Well, Parker, what is it? asked he. 'Mr Roberts, sir, wishes to see you. For a moment the Head was at a loss. He could not recall any friend or acquaintance of that name.
Tommy Dane turned around and looked very hard at Dick, who had been the chief of Billy's persecutors; but the boy, though looking very shame-faced, made no effort to move. "Some of you," continued the master, "have been making Billy Butler very unhappy. Do you think the boy has too much pleasure in his life?"
Did General George A. Gordon know anything about it: and if not, why not? The Record says: "Butler, in the last days of the war, uttered an insult to the President who was shortly to be made a martyr." Well, this is really a serious charge, and the public certainly will be interested in knowing what the "insult" was. Will the Record kindly explain? For the present, the subject may rest here.
John said there were some very fine pieces of Queen Anne which he would show her. "There was," she murmured, "nothing like Queen Anne." The attentiveness of the footman and even of the butler did not seem to her to be entirely confined to their wants. St.
Colonel Butler expects us to cross the stream, and he won't make much effort to prevent us, but what he means to do is to keep us from reaching Wilkesbarre, and we aren't going to get there in a hurry, either. Well, don't you see that we are likely to be in the woods a good while, and we may have to take a long circuitous route to get out?
The pretty waitress of the inn showed me the way, and a wheezing old man half gardener and half butler introduced me to the rooms where Cowper had passed so many a dreary hour, and where he had been cheered by the blithe company of Cousin Lady Hesketh.
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