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Oh! say you believe me, my lord duke!" cried the poor wretch, wringing his hands. "Your words and manner are very impressive; nevertheless, I cannot place confidence in them," said the duke, coldly. "Oh, my lord! my lord! Oh, my lord! my lord!" groaned the valet, lifting both his hands to heaven, as if in appeal from a great injustice. The duke was moved.

Now another holds her place, and she is obliged secretly to enter the castle where she once ruled, to despatch a valet to her enemy, to attend his pleasure, and to receive him in the dwelling of an humble canon. Times are changed with me, Wolsey sadly changed." "I have been in attendance on the king, madam, or I should have been with you sooner," replied Wolsey.

As he raised the dice-box, the door opened, and his first valet appeared on the threshold. "Pardon me, your excellency, that I presume to enter the room. But there is a messenger from the empress, and she begs your excellency's immediate attendance." With an air of consummate indifference, Kaunitz replaced the dice on the table.

And he gave in his turn a hand to the girl who followed him. There were still two people in the omnibus, the elderly man's Italian valet and an Englishman. As the latter got out, and stretched his limbs cramped with much sitting, he saw Amedeo, with genuine smiles, escorting the two girls and the elderly man towards the glass-roofed hall, on the left of which was the lift.

'Give to the marquis, she said to a valet de chambre, 'all that he requires for his toilet. In those days people dressed for the night. These extraordinary words did not rouse the husband from his mood of abstraction, and then madame, assisted by her maid, began to indulge in a thousand coquetries.

"He won't pay if he knows I'm interested. We're not exactly friendly since I sold out my smelter interests. But he needn't know nobody need know." Illis called his valet and instructed him to rouse his secretary and ring for some cable blanks. "I think I'll cable, too," Murray told him. "I have some 'boys' up there who are working in the dark with their teeth shut.

No sooner had he begun to remove his wet diving- suit than the man who had signalled with the heliograph that we had found Del Mar's message from "below," whatever that might mean, entered the house and was announced by the valet. "Let him come in immediately," ordered Del Mar, placing his suit in a closet. Then to the man, as he entered, he said, "Well, what's new?"

"Good God!" he muttered. "Good God in heaven!" He saw Parks. "Has it been like this for long?" he asked. Parks shook his head. "I don't know," he answered.... And then: "It must have been. The servants are all gone." "Servants gone?" "Yes; there's been no one below stairs for a fortnight. They irritated him, and he discharged them, one and all." "His valet?" "Went last night.

To-morrow we depart for Boston; and as I still need the services of a valet, you can go with me if you choose. 'Thank'ee, sir; I shall be glad to go with you, said Brown. 'Then that matter is settled, rejoined Mr. Hedge 'you can leave me now; I shall not want you again to-night. I will stretch myself upon this sofa, and try to sleep.

This colonel, who had been a page at the Court of Louis XVI., knew that it would have been against etiquette, and even unbecoming of him, to act as a valet to Napoleon while there were valets in the room; he therefore retreated, looking round for a servant.