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They fancied that he had come for Liza and had brought back the money which he had taken in haste without reflection. But Bugrov had not come for Liza. Ashamed of his new get-up and feeling frightfully awkward in it, he bowed and stood at the door in the attitude of a flunkey. The get-up was superb. Bugrov was unrecognisable.
There's an old cabin there Jacques Perritot used to live in. The snow'll blot out our tracks." "You goin' too?" "I'll see you that far," Whaley answered briefly. "Better bring down the dogs from the coulée, then." The gambler looked at him with the cool insolence that characterized him. "When did I hire out as your flunkey, West?" The outlaw's head was thrust forward and down.
He had crushed the greatest rogue in London, taken from him eight thousand pounds of ill gotten money, and freed himself of an incubus that would have made his position untenable. Rochester could have done just the same, had he possessed daring, and energy, and courage enough. He hadn't, and there was an end of it. At this moment a knock came to the door, and a flunkey a new one appeared.
Lenore is teaching him; and if his talent prove worth it we may do something with him. Any way, the produce of native genius will be grand material for the bazaar." "Card-board prettinesses!" said Mrs. Duncombe; "you spoil him with them; but that you'll do any way make him fit for nothing but a flunkey."
For some moments she stood there, watching the doors which a powdered flunkey had swung to after their entrance. Wild suggestions flung themselves before her consideration. She would go back to her room, dress herself in the best frock that Traill had given her and go to supper there herself. She would wait there an hour, an hour and a half if necessary, to see if he went home with them.
Fearing lest many words might betray my rank and, strange to say, though I should not have been afraid of confessing myself an artisan before the "gentlemen" who had just left the room, I was ashamed to have my low estate discovered, and talked over with his compeers, by the flunkey who waited on them I answered, "Anything I really don't care," in as aristocratic and off-hand a tone as I could assume.
Foo! what a flunkey's place you've been filling all this time. I positively blushed for you." "I filling a flunkey's place?" cried Stepan Trofimovitch, unable to restrain himself. "Worse, you've been a parasite, that is, a voluntary flunkey too lazy to work, while you've an appetite for money. She, too, understands all that now. It's awful the things she's been telling me about you, anyway.
"It is a great thing to have a father a privy councillor," said St. Barbe, with a glance of envy. "If I were the son of a privy councillor, those demons, Shuffle and Screw, would give me 500 pounds for my novel, which now they put in their beastly magazine and print in small type, and do not pay me so much as a powdered flunkey has in St. James' Square.
And if I do marry you, I'll be a faithful wife to you you need not doubt that. Then she thought a bit, and said, 'At all events, you are not a flunkey; at first, I thought you were no better than a flunkey. And she arranged the wedding and fixed the day straight away on the spot.
It was seven o'clock when he reached the door of 10A, Carlton House Terrace. The flunkey who admitted him, having taken his hat, stick and gloves, presented him with a letter that had arrived by the midday post, also with a piece of information. "Mr. Voles called to see you, my Lord, shortly after twelve. He stated that he had an appointment with you. He is to call again at quarter past seven."
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