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Later a drawer came to my door and told me that Paddy and Jem, with three men-servants of gentlemen sleeping at the inn, had sallied out to a mug-house. "Mug-house?" said I. "What in the devil's name is a mug-house?" "Mug-house, sir?" said the man, staring. "Mug-house? Why, sir, 'tis 'tis a form of amusement, sir." "It is, is it?" said I. "Very good.
'They are afraid of me! my father thundered. I sent a message to Janet. She was not long in coming, followed by a footman who handed a twist of note-paper from my aunt Dorothy to my father. He opened it and made believe to read it, muttering all the while of the Will. Janet dismissed the men-servants. She was quite colourless. 'We have been stopped in the doorway, I said.
As to his own eating, Heaven forbid that I should grudge it to him; but it is curious and utterly subversive of all medical dogma that both men-servants and maidservants, who take, of course, comparatively little exercise, should, nevertheless, contrive to eat more apiece for dinner than two average Alpine climbers.
Some households there were, indeed, which maintained a precarious though seemingly miraculous footing on the surface, or near it, going under for mere brief periods, only to rise again and flaunt men-servants in the face of Providence. There were real tragedies, too, although a casual visitor would never have guessed it. For tragedies sink, and that is the end of them.
On seeing these additional men-servants, Barnes began figuratively to count on his fingers the retainers he had so far encountered on the place. Already he has seen six, all of them powerful, rugged fellows. It struck him. as extraordinary, and in a way significant, that there should be so many men at Green Fancy.
"Sir," replied the flattered host, "they are yours." "Oh, really now! Well I'll take them, and that right gladly." The landlord and his family, his dogs, his horses, and his men-servants, all take breakfast with hearty appetites. He assumes the host's place and privileges, drinks his wine and caresses his daughter. After this a crowd of hunters take seats at the breakfast table.
It was all very strange. Just fancy how any stranger say a doctor would regard her, if she were to tell him that she had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants. Adam had returned, exhilarated by his walk, and more settled in his mind than he had been for some time.
A regular aquarium specimen of turbot sat on its dish opposite him, while Aunt Maria had a huge lot of soles. And there wasn't any need, because there were four men-servants in the room who could easily have done it at the side; but I remember you said it was always like that when you were a little girl. Well, it got on to puddings.
We cannot marvel at the beating, but simply wonder at its being remarked in those days of many and hard beatings, when scholars, servants, soldiers, and college students were well whipped, and, in Old England, wives also. Wynter had no better fortune without doors with his men-servants and workmen; they proved kittle cattle.
None of the men-servants entered the lady's apartment, but only the two dueñas and the damsel. My wife and I asked the men-servants who was this lady, what was her name, whence she came, and whither she was going? Was she wife, widow, or maid, and why she wore that pilgrim's dress?
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