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Mistake me not; I understand not by valour one that never fights but when he is backed with drink or anger, or hissed on with beholders, nor one that is desperate, nor one that takes away a serving-man's weapons when perchance it cost him his quarter's wages, nor yet one that wears a privy coat of defence and therein is confident, for then such as made bucklers would be counted the Catilines of the commonwealth.
"Even with the speed of man and horse," said Dryfesdale; "for though I care not much about the latter days of an old serving-man's life, yet I would like to know as soon as may be, whether my neck is mine own or the hangman's." "Holdest thou thy own life so lightly?" said the Lady.
Consecrate your existence to the recollection of James Steerforth's tenderness he would have made you his serving-man's wife, would he not? -or to feeling grateful to the upright and deserving creature who would have taken you as his gift.
The tradition is, that when Queen Elizabeth received the intelligence of the defeat of the Armada, she was dining off a goose doubtless about eleven o'clock in the morning. It was an anxious moment, and perhaps her majesty for the moment had thrown ceremony somewhat aside, and was "keeping secret house." The author of the "Serving-man's Comfort," 1598, also laments the decay of hospitality.
But the next day they jogged on together again until by-and-by they came to a great forest. There they wandered up and down till night came upon them and found them still stumbling onward through the darkness, while the poor serving-man's flesh quaked to hear the wild beasts and the wolves growling and howling around them.
Something not to be seen on the surface was disturbing this old man; and, moving in the shadows as I was, I questioned whether it would not conduce to some explanation between Mrs. Packard and myself if I addressed her on the subject of this old serving-man's peculiar ways. But the opportunity for doing this did not come that morning. On entering the library I was met by Mrs.
Dishonesty never comes nearer than her ears, and then wonder stops it out, and saves virtue the labour. She leaves the neat youth telling his luscious tales, and puts back the serving-man's putting forward with a frown: yet her kindness is free enough to be seen, for it hath no guilt about it; and her mirth is clear, that you may look through it into virtue, but not beyond.
The Templars had been regaled by our friend Richie Moniplies in a private chamber at Beaujeu's, where he might be considered as good company; for he had exchanged his serving-man's cloak and jerkin for a grave yet handsome suit of clothes, in the fashion of the times, but such as might have befitted an older man than himself.
The old serving-man's devotion to Jacques Haret was touching. "Sometimes it is years that I do not see him," he said to me; "but always, when I do, it is the same greeting 'Well, Peter, my man, here is your old master's son, and a real embrace, such as gentlefolk give each other." "And if you happen to have any money about you, do you not hand it over to Jacques Haret?" I asked.
Hugo, putting a strong restraint on himself, obeyed, and was rewarded on the serving-man's return with the promise that, as soon as the dog came in and was tied, he might venture forth with Humphrey to explore the region. "Thou must know," remarked Humphrey, "that we be on the high bank. On the other side of the valley sloping coppices abound, and therein can I show thee many badger holes.
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