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"He may be able to get along while we are lying in port, but I should like to see him work the ship in a gale of wind." "He can do it," answered Sheffield, confidently. "But he is a flunky, and spoiled all our fun in the Josephine. I am willing to throw him over for being a hypocrite, and selling us out as he did. What else are we to gain?"
I'm going to be captain next term, if I can fetch it any way in the world." "You mean to be a flunky, just like the rest of them. You are not the same fellow you used to be." "Yes, I am." "You are getting too big for your boots." "You wrong me, Wilton. I'm just as good a fellow as I ever was. I think I'm the best fellow in the ship, and for that reason I want to be captain.
With his teaspoon in his hand he peeped round the corner and saw with amazement that a carriage and pair were waiting outside, and that a powdered footman was standing at the door. The spoon tinkled down upon the floor, and he stood gazing in bewilderment. Then, pulling himself together, he threw open the door. "Young man," said the flunky, "tell your master, Dr.
In view of the fact that Colonel Dodd owned the First National block the big clock seemed to point its finger at him with the bland pride of a flunky in a master. It seemed to say, "Behold! The great man is here!" Colonel Dodd was never embarrassed when fingers were pointed at him wherever he went. If a man is lord of finance and politics in his state he expects to be pointed out.
"If it is er anything about the hospital, miss, Mr. er Golightly will attend." "No, it is Mr. Storm himself I wish to see." "Gorn!" said the footman, and he shut the door in her face. She had an impulse to hammer on the door with her hand, and command the flunky to go down on his knees and beg her pardon. But what was the good? She had no time to think of herself now.
Thackeray's studies of the flunky are capital; but he studies him qua flunky, as a naturalist might study an animal, and hardly ranks him sub specie humanitatis. But to the American humorist all men are primarily men.
He was as insolent to others as he was obsequious to his master a flunky by nature and long education. Phipps appeared. "Well, Phipps, what are you here for?" inquired Mr. Belcher. "I was told you wanted me, sir," looking doubtfully with his cunning eyes into Mr. Belcher's face, as if questioning his mood. "How is your health? You look feeble. Overwhelmed by your tremendous duties?
This might be a ruse to throw us off our guard, but I did not think so. The enemy was badly demoralized, and the chances were that Bothwell would welcome a chance to whip his forces into shape again. "Is the door from the galley to the main deck locked and nailed up, Billie?" I asked of the flunky. "Yes, sir." "Nail planks across the window too.
But you aren't inclined that way." "I'm not." "Then why, the devil take it, do you hang around here? I can see very well that a great deal here is revolting and oppressive and painful to your own self. For example, this fool quarrel with Boris or this flunky who beats a woman, and , in general, the constant contemplation of every kind of filth, lust, bestiality, vulgarity, drunkenness.
One in my position could only meet them as a flunky meets his master, anyway. Gordon, on his way to his doom in the Soudan, disembarked at Alexandria. It was early in January. There was no parade, no reception of any kind. Gordon was dressed in plain clothes with a cane in his hand. Gladstone had sent him thus to bring order out of chaos in the Land of the Mad Mullah.
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