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On either side of him, in place of priceless works by old masters, were great tablets inscribed with many names in gold characters. He scanned these tablets timidly, and at length found what he wanted, 'Mark Snyder, Literary Agent, under the heading 'Third Floor. At the same moment a flunkey in chocolate and cream approached him. 'Mr. Snyder? asked Henry.
The ancient wig of the judge is often indistinguishable from the old wig of the flunkey. To judge about success or failure one must see things very simply; one must see them in masses, as the artist, half closing his eyes against details, sees light and shade.
Beneath the awning a panel of light fell on the plashy pavement. Already the guests were arriving. I whipped in briskly, presented my card, and passed up a staircase decorated with flags, evergreens, and national emblems. A venerable flunkey waited for me at the summit. "Cloak lobby to the left, sir." I obeyed, and exchanged my overcoat and goloshes for a circular metal ticket.
Then the summons came from the King. Instinctively I held out my hand to Courtney. He gripped it hard. "Good-bye, old man, and God bless you," he said. Then I followed the flunkey. When I entered the library, Frederick came forward and kissed me on both cheeks. "My dear Armand," he said, "I am pleased beyond expression." "It's a pity," thought I, "kissing isn't an expression."
The Archbishop's brother, Count Arco, was so infuriated at the impertinence of a mere musical flunkey, like Mozart, daring to present a formal resignation, that he heaped abuse upon him and finally kicked him out of the room.
On returning to the house, it struck him, as he passed through the hall, that he heard a voice in the pantry. He went there and found Leonard lying flat on his stomach, quite alone, with his hands tied behind his back: "So it's you growling, my confidential flunkey? Don't get excited: it's almost finished.
And so it would seem, by parity of reasoning, or rather a fortiori, as being fed, clothed, and housed far more expensively, and in far more strenuous and pretentious laziness, are the superfluous masters of flunkeys. The flunkey does some work, at all events enough to prevent him from becoming a mere fattened animal.
"Well, to go back: I began to push my way past the flunkey, when he summoned his brass and said I couldn't come in that I must slide myself into costume of the eight stripe! This to me was neither diplomatic nor polite. To which he elongated himself, and with cool assurance said it had never before been his fortune to be put through the process hence he was not prepared to figure up the amount.
This thought blinded him for a moment to the fact that a flunkey they seemed as numerous as flies in May was at his elbow with a menu, whilst another flunkey, who seemed to have sprung from the floor, was fiddling at the sideboard which contained cold edibles, tongue, ham, chicken and so forth. "Scrambled eggs," said he, looking at the card. "Tea or coffee, my Lord?" "Coffee."
She cast the rabbit-skins imperially to a neighbouring flunkey, arranged her hair and fichu before a glass, kicked out her skirt with the heel of one of the kid boots, nipped the green chiffon into prominence with decisive fingers, and then, turning to the Prophet with all the majesty of a suburban empress, said in a powerful voice, "Step forward, I beg. J'ai pret."
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