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Now it so happened that this servant of Croft, Norris by name, was a Papist, a man of bad character, and formerly a spy of the Duke of Anjou. "If your Lordship or myself should use such instruments as this," wrote Walsingham to Leicester, "I know we should bear no small reproach; but it is the good hap of hollow and doubtful men to be best thought of."
As soon as the commissioner, after saying these words, had left the room, Lord Oldborough, in a tone of sovereign contempt, repeated the word, "Popularity! There goes a man, now, who thinks me fit to be a fool to fame!" "Popularity," said Mr. Temple, "is a bad master, but a good servant.
Kate had never had a servant, or a fur coat; for long intervals she had not had a night's unbroken rest; and there had been times, when Wolf's fractured arm necessitated a doctor's bill, or when coal for the little Detroit house had made a disproportionate hole in her bank account, in which even the thrifty Kate had known biting financial worry. But the children never knew it.
Ewart answered sullenly enough, 'Aye, aye, sir. 'Go with him, Nixon, said Redgauntlet, forcing himself to speak with some appearance of cordiality to the servant with whom he was offended; 'see he does his duty. Ewart left the house sullenly, followed by Nixon.
You will go home to your father, and I shall go into some humble lodging to work for you. I'll contrive to keep you, and find you a hundred a year to spend in dress the only thing your heart can really love. But I won't have an enemy here in the disguise of a friend; and I won't have a wife about me I must treat like a servant, and watch like a traitor."
Straightway the knight fell down upon his knees and craved mercy. 'Why should I give mercy to one so full of pride and arrogance? said Sir Geraint. 'Thou, through thy servant, hast shamefully insulted the queen of my lord, King Arthur. 'Fair knight, cried the other, 'I confess it, and I give up my overbearing henceforth, and I crave for mercy.
In the slave, Pollux at once recognized the servant of Claudius Venator, and he fancied he must have seen the masked gentlemen too before now, but he could not remember where, and did not trouble himself to retrace him in his mind. At any rate, the rider of the donkey had just heard something he did not like, for he was looking anxiously at his bunch of flowers.
If children are numerous, or her husband is not getting on quite so well as could be wished, she will not be able to have a servant to wait at table. What wonder, then, if she gives up late dinner and has a meat-tea, at which everything can be put on the table at once.
"My dear," said the judge, "I cannot receive your complaint, because I believe no girl could be thus treated against her will." "Hi! hi! hi! Ask your servant," said the little laundress, sobbing, "and hear what she'll tell you."
Fong made no move for the water, but stood looking from the crimson stain to the man's face. "You sick, Mist Mayer?" he said. The strained tension snapped. With an eye if steel-cold fury on the servant the man broke into a low, almost whispered, cursing. The words ran out of his mouth, fluent, rapid, in an unpremeditated rush.
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