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It adds to the effect to conceal the musicians behind a screen of evergreen and flowers. The dressing-rooms should be provided with two servants apiece, and small cards, with the names of the invited guests upon them, should be in readiness to pin to the wraps of each one.
If you see her one minute you can never forget her, and she is brains to her finger tips. She ruled everyone at Surrey House. She was Lord Surrey's secretary and Lady Surrey's adviser. She educated the children, and they adored her; she ruled the servants, and they obeyed her with fear and trembling. Nothing was done in Surrey House without her approval.
He's a pleasant spoken young man and I'm sure I wish you luck with him," said Cookie, who, like all the other servants, was now exceedingly civil to Elizabeth. Her star had risen; she was considered in the household a most fortunate woman.
"Nobody but the servants in the house with you? Will not you be very much afraid of ghosts?" "She need never be alone, unless she chooses," says Bobby, winking with dexterous slightness at the others; "there is the beauty of having three kind little brothers!"
"You must know, that Teresa, who attended me from my childhood, and in whose honesty I reposed such confidence, having disobliged some of the inferior servants, was so narrowly watched in all her transactions, as to be at last detected in the very act of conveying a piece of plate, which was actually found concealed among her clothes.
He was an agitator with a tendency to conservatism. He was a Nero without servants, without power, and without land. He was a musician from despair and out of vanity. He was a Nero in our own day. He was the Nero of our day living in three rooms. He was a lonely bachelor and a bookworm.
Is it possible to collect another army? Must we continue his humble servants? "'There is no republic now, remarked Sieyes; 'Bonaparte is consul for ten years. "'He has more power than ever Cromwell had, said the former bishop, 'and he did not vote for the death of the king.
If thou wishest to achieve success, thou shouldst never appoint servants in situations higher than what they deserve. That foolish king who, transgressing precedent, appoints servants to offices for which they are not fit, fails to gratify his people.
There were pressing matters too to be arranged; and, weightiest of all, those relating to Margaret's future. She would now be the only woman besides the servants, in the house; and it was growing less and less likely that she would be ever able to take up the Religious Life again in England.
I would that all my servants were as disinterested." I knelt to kiss his hand. I think I could not have spoken at that moment. As I stood up, he spoke again. "When do you leave town?" he said. "On Tuesday, Sir." "Well, come and see me again before you go. No, not in private: you need not fear for that. Come to-morrow night, to the levée after supper." "I will do so, Sir," said I.
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