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If the case had ever gone to trial she'd have had to do some explaining." "She or Donaldson," Dick said obstinately. Bassett read on: Jean Melis called and sworn. Q. "Your name?" A. "Jean Melis." Q. "Have you an American residence, Mr. Melis?" A. "Only where I am employed. I am now living at the Clark ranch." Q. "What is your business?" A. "I am Mr. Clark's valet." Q. "It was you who found Mr.
Billy heaved a sigh of relief as he watched them pulling towards the shore. It was the last he or his captain ever saw or heard of Major Bubsby and his daughters, the major's name disappearing soon afterwards from the army list. Lord Saint Maur, of course, went home in the Bellona. He was accompanied by Rip and Snarley, the former begging that he might enter his service as valet.
Carroll it must have been Mr. Gresham." "Aa-a-ah! What makes you think that?" Barker's eyes narrowed. "You give me your word of honor, Mr. Carroll, I ain't goin' to be pinched for blackmail?" "Yes." "Well, it was this way, sir. Bein' Mr. Warren's valet I knew he was plannin' to run off with Mrs. Lawrence. I knew that was going to raise an awful row in town and I knew that Mr.
He was anxious to make Barbara's life in Prebrunn a pleasant one. The latter, with downcast eyes, thanked Master Adrian and turned away; but he detained her with the inquiry whether he should probably find Sir Wolf Hartschwert at home, and received the answer that he had gone to Syndic Hiltner's. The valet then hastily took his leave, because just at that time his royal master needed him.
His town servants were his German valet, Bastien, who served during the last visit to America, a footman, and a coachman. Cooper wrote: "When I show myself at the door Bastien makes a signal of assent, intimates that the general is at dinner; but I am at once ushered into the bed-room. Here I find Lafayette at table so small as to be covered with a napkin, his little white dog his only companion."
At the moment he picked it up his valet entered the room in answer to his ring. Some intuition warned the duke to send the man away while he should read his letter. "Have a warm bath ready for me at nine o'clock, Dubois, and order breakfast at half-past," he said. The man bowed and left the room. The duke dropped into a chair, and with a strange, vague foreboding of evil, opened the letter.
Then you sent for me, began very pathetically to talk of your desolate state, your family all dead, and so on; that it had been sadly brought home to you how alone you were while lying sick, hour after hour, in this great hotel, with only your valet to attend to you and take an interest in your well-being; and that, day after day, as you lay thinking of your fate, my face had come before you, recalling tender memories of your lost and dearly-loved sister.
Thus had the chapter of labour ended, and that of leisure opened. And it was with the sadness of things terminated very strongly upon him that, as Frederick, the German-Swiss valet, finished clearing the dinner-table and departed, Mr. Iglesias looked forth over the neatly protected verdure of Trimmer's Green in the evening quiet. The smugly pacific aspect of the place irritated him.
Then he lowered his voice, "When you parted from me I was your valet. You didn't hear from me for the best part of four years and believed me dead. You came back to find that I was your superior officer and had tangled things up for you pretty badly. You've threatened me with your knowledge of a previous love-affair and you have it in your power to tangle up my future in return.
I am a substitute for another person, who was taken ill upon the road. But there is no time to speak of that now. I came to be of use to you. Shall I see after your luggage?" "Yes, I shall be glad if you will do so." "You have a servant with you, Mr. Dunbar?" "No, my valet was taken ill at Malta, and I left him behind." "Indeed!" exclaimed Joseph Wilmot; "that was a misfortune."
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