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"Dalej, dalej!" the peasant had shouted at him, as if he were his stableboy or his farm horse. Was he to put up with that? Was he really obliged to put up with it? No, no, no! The slim-looking schoolmaster was on the point of jumping up from his seat, but he got no further. He had again caught a glance from Mrs. Tiralla, and he had understood what those black eyes were saying to him.
Then the guest looked up from his book and stated his alibi: 'I was in my stable, sitting up with a sick horse, he said. 'I came away long after the church service was over when the poor beast died with frothing at the nose. You can ask my stable-boy. Jack bowed his head respectfully. 'Your stableboy, Mutenu, has told me so this evening, he said. 'But, O master, why should we lie?
He soon took his departure, a stableboy driving him back to the village. There he had a talk with the cashier. Mortimer was to be asked to resign his position as soon as his place in the bank could be filled.
He is well known by repute, and the subject of many a sharp jest; for this is Pandion, formerly a stableboy, and now one of "Caesar's friends," a praetor, and one of the great men of the empire. But he knows his business; and what does Caracalla care for tradition or descent, for the murmurs and discontent of high or low?
He was not only ill made, short and sun-burnt; but his face was so ugly and so low that I concluded that AEsop himself must have been a little Love beside his eminence. I understood now why he was so profuse in his generosity and decorations, for otherwise he might well have been taken for a stableboy.
Everybody in the house, from the august landlord down to the humble stableboy, knew that there had been a reconciliation between Sir Harry and his cousin, and that the cousin was to be made welcome to all the good the gods could give.
"You pitiful stroller, you stableboy, born in a stable " "Is it not an honor to be born where monsieur must have been bred?" "You scurvy foot-boy, you greasy barber, you cutthroat groom " "Overwhelm'!" The young man bowed with imperturbable elation. "M. le Duc appoint' me to all the office' of his househol'." "You mustachioed fool, there are not five people of quality in Bath will speak to you "
A man entered the room, whom I took for a stableboy; it was M. de Melfort. "See," said the princess to him, "M. Casanova has taught me the cabalistic science." And she shewed him the answer she had obtained herself. The count could not believe it. "Well," said the duchess to me, "we must convince him. What shall I ask?" "Anything your highness chooses."
He is well known by repute, and the subject of many a sharp jest; for this is Pandion, formerly a stableboy, and now one of "Caesar's friends," a praetor, and one of the great men of the empire. But he knows his business; and what does Caracalla care for tradition or descent, for the murmurs and discontent of high or low?
He was not only ill made, short and sun-burnt; but his face was so ugly and so low that I concluded that AEsop himself must have been a little Love beside his eminence. I understood now why he was so profuse in his generosity and decorations, for otherwise he might well have been taken for a stableboy.
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