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There was an open carriage and a closed carriage, and a butler, and two footmen, and three gamekeepers, and four gardeners, and there was a coachman, and there were grooms, and sundry inferior men and boys about the place to do the work which the gardeners and game-keepers and grooms did not choose to do themselves.
There were banks and coppices of flowers at either corner, a huge palm nodded over silver and glass and priceless china. The softly shaded electric lights made pools of amber flame on fruit and flowers and gleaming crystal. Half-a-dozen big footmen went about their work with noiseless tread. Henson shook his head playfully at all this show and splendour.
"Poor man!" said Ellen; "that is Squire L , who, as you heard the apothecary say, has drunk harder in his day than any man that ever he knew; and this is what he has brought himself to by drinking! All the physic in the apothecary's shop cannot make him well again! No; nor can his fine coach and fine footmen any more make him easy or happy, poor man!"
The gathering was primitive and peculiar, like the gathering at a Western camp-meeting footmen, and men and women on horseback, and whole families in two-horse lumber wagons.
Mademoiselle d'Herouville had contrived to wound that worthy man by sending a footmen to tell him to come to her, instead of sending her nephew in person; thus depriving the notary of a distinguished visit he would certainly have talked about for the rest of his natural life.
He waged war out of his own kingdom with the Egyptians, under the conduct of Pharnabazus and Iphicrates, but was unsuccessful by reason of their dissensions. In his expedition against the Cadusians, he went himself in person with three hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand horse.
Every one may learn that, in spite of my sickness, I have risen from my couch in order to reestablish tranquillity in the capital." He stepped to his desk and rapidly wrote a few words, whereupon he handed the paper to Germain, his valet de chambre. "Here, Germain, hasten with this note to Count Fersen, the director of police, and take this fellow along. Two footmen may accompany you.
"Trumpery ambitions!" echoed Cicely "My dear, they are ambitions for which nearly all women are willing to scramble, fight and die! To be a Duchess! To dwell in an ancient 'restored' castle of once proud English nobles! Saint Moses! Who wouldn't sacrifice such vague matters as heart, life and soul for the glory of being called 'Your Grace' by obsequious footmen! My unconventional Maryllia!
"I fear we shall never dispose of all your mighty retinue, grooms of the chamber, and Patagonian footmen, and Heaven knows who besides, in the holes and corners of Burleigh," said Ernest smiling.
Here, he said to one of the footmen, who was passing through the hall 'here, Jones, send up Lanigan, till we see whether he knows this old faggot, who has the assurance to tell me that she lays eggs and hatches chickens. When Lanigan came up again, he looked at me as at an old acquaintance, which, in point of fact, we were.
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