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"What's the Doctor want?" whispered Singh, as they followed the footman into the house. "A wigging, I'm afraid, gentlemen," said the man who heard his words. "But don't you mind. You write out your lines and do your imposition like men. It was fine! What you did this morning has made every one think no end of you, and it will never be forgotten so long as this 'ere's a school."
So he sent it." "Well?" "You wrote it, sir, I fancy." "What if I did." "And this 'ere footman is your idea of me." The American glanced at the passage and approved his own phrases. "Yes, that's you," he admitted. The footman folded up his document once more and replaced it in his pocket. "I'd like to 'ave a word or two with you over that, sir," he said in the same suave imperturbable voice.
He stared: again he had to go, muttering: 'That nondescript's footman! and his mischance in being checked and crossed and humiliated perpetually by a dirty-fisted vagabond impostor astounded him. He sent the flyman to the carriage for orders. Admiral Fakenham and Carinthia descended.
"Sir," said Lady Anne to the footman, "I had a letter some time this morning, in my hand." "Yes, my lady." "I want it." "Yes, my lady." "Pray, sir, tell somebody to tell Pritchard, to tell Flora, to go up stairs to my dressing-room, sir, to look every where for't; and let it be brought to my sister, Lady Frances, if you please, sir."
The Baroness looked at the servants timidly, as if she expected the butler and the footman to express their disapprobation of the guest. "I have left politics for the present," Malipieri replied, looking at Sabina and smiling. "Of course!" cried the Baroness. "But " she stopped short. "My wife," said the financier with a grin, "is afraid you have dynamite about you." "How absurd!"
She thought she would rather have stayed in the park all night long, and slept under the beautiful quiet cedar, than have to undergo the unknown ordeal of 'going down to dessert, which was evidently regarded both by children and nurses as the event of the day. At length there was a summons from a footman, and Mrs.
But I can't afford to keep a second footman one is quite enough, or a coachman, or a carriage; besides, I would always rather ride than drive, and my groom, Bennett, will only want a stable-boy to help him with Cleo and Daffodil. So I hope there'll be no one downstairs to tease you, Spruce dear, by tickling YOUR nose with a straw!
"Announce Prince Nekhludoff," he said to a footman, without stopping on his way. The footman started off at a trot and passed them. "Vous n'avez qu' a ordonner. But you must see my wife. As it is, I got it for letting you go without seeing her last time."
Arriving there, she was ushered into the blue drawing-room by Dobson, in his character of footman; and in a few minutes Lucia appeared. When Mrs. Burnham saw her, she assumed a slight air of surprise. "Why, my dear," she said, as she shook hands, "I should scarcely have known you." And, though this was something of an exaggeration, there was some excuse for the exclamation.
Why, even Dad sees through you, and the person who can't impose upon my Dad . Oh!" she added, suddenly, in a changed voice, "there is George coming through the gate. Something has happened to my father. Look at his face, Morris; look at his face!" In another moment the footman stood before them. "Please, miss, the master," he began, and hesitated. "Not dead?" said Mary, in a slow, quiet voice.
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