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"Give him his warning." "And the jockey?" "Discharge him on the spot, and take him by the ear out of the premises before he poisons the lot. Keep one of the stable-boys, and let my groom do the rest." "But who is to take them to the place of auction, sir?" "Nobody. I'll have the auction here, and sell them where they stand. Submit all your books of account to this young gentleman."
They rode side by side to the seat they had sat upon before, and without saying much he helped her to alight and gave the reins of both horses to the black groom. Once seated, however, he turned to her and said, gravely, "Of course, that remark of yours had to do with our conversation the last time we sat here?" "Of course," agreed Diana, calmly.
'Ah! well, we will not wound you, my son, while talk is vain. You shall have the means of sending your groom, if thus you will set your mind at rest, though I had rather have trusted to Walsingham's dealing.
All Richard could do was to beg the groom specially attached to the pages' service, to have a care of the little fellow, and get him sheltered in a tent as soon as possible; but the Prince never suffered any hesitation in obeying him, and it was needful to hurry at once into the boat.
It was the excitement of danger, and 'way down in their hearts both girls were enjoying it, though they did not realise it at the moment. What the statuesque groom who sat up behind felt, nobody will ever know. He kept his head up straight, and his arms folded, and his face showed a brave do-or-die expression, though there was nobody to notice it.
"No, no, not a groom," interrupted Rastignac; "he has some sort of an agricultural laborer that he brought with him 'from his place. Buisson, who understands a livery as well as most, declared that the man was physically incapable of wearing a jacket." "I will tell you what, you ought to have modeled yourself on Beaudenord," the Vidame said seriously.
"Ha!" exclaimed the groom, noticing the water that dripped from Blondet's boots and trousers, "has monsieur been taken in by Pere Fourchon's otter?" The words enlightened the journalist. "Don't say a word about it, Charles," he cried, "and I'll make it all right with you." "Oh, as for that!" answered the man, "Monsieur le comte himself has been taken in by that otter.
Accordingly, he gives the names and pedigrees of the whole stud, from "the buggy mare Maiden-head and my wicked little favourite Fish-Guts," up to "my favourite brood-mare Fair Amelia, purchased at a prize sale on the frontier, and bred by the king of Bokhara, with his royal stamp on her near flank stands nearly fifteen and a half hands high, with magnificent action and great show of blood had, when taken, four gold rings in her nostrils, now removed and replaced by silver, which will be stolen by her groom one by one."
Beside which, his mien conquered me, and an affectionate sentiment towards him, again filled my heart I bade him command me. "Aye, that I will," said he gaily, "that's my cue now; be with me to-morrow morning by seven; be secret and faithful; and you shall be groom of the stole ere long."
Bates's daughter and assistant, the two, plus a whiskered Bates, gardener and groom, forming the domestic establishment presided over by Grant. "Nun-no, sir," stuttered the housekeeper. "It's stupid of me. But I'm not so young as I was, an' me heart jumps at little things." Grant saw that she was recovering, though slowly.
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