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To that again, yes after a rather lengthy delay, while the valet, inscrutable, yet evidently highly critical, made inquiries. The trees in the square had whispered together uncomfortably, while the two young ladies waited in the carriage.
He also secured the services of that now well-known hero, Bombay, captain of Speke's faithfuls, and five of his other followers, Uledi, Grant's valet, and the bull-headed Mabruki, who had in the mean time lost one of his hands, but, notwithstanding, was likely to prove useful. They were the only remains of the band to be found, the rest having died or gone elsewhere.
Whilst the king was directing his course rapidly towards the wing of the castle occupied by the cardinal, taking nobody with him but his valet de chambre, the officer of musketeers came out, breathing like a man who has for a long time been forced to hold his breath, from the little cabinet of which we have already spoken, and which the king believed to be quite solitary.
All the athletic exercises in the world are of no value to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumb-bells to yield to him, in strength and muscle, the power for which he, himself, pays in time and effort. He can never develop his muscles by sending his valet to a gymnasium.
John Rex, known among his intimate associates as Dandy Jack, was the putative son of a man who had been for many years valet to Lord Bellasis, and who retired from the service of that profligate nobleman with a sum of money and a wife.
He already had the bath prepared, I must have looked as if I wanted one, and when I gave him the key of my bag, he laid out my clothes with the quick deftness of a well-trained valet. I told him I shouldn't want him any more at present, but when I had bathed and changed, I found him still hovering around in the next room. He had set a tea-table, on which the silver samovar was hissing invitingly.
The next day, being the Sabbath, with the assistance of Mahomed, who was valet as well as cook to the whole party, they divested themselves of their beards, which had not been touched for many days, and dressed themselves in more suitable apparel than their usual hunting costume, a respect paid to the Sabbath by even the most worldly and most indifferent on religious points.
Unfortunately, this young impertinent gave himself airs of finding my person agreeable, and of cherishing a passion for me; my first valet de chambre told me of it at once. I gave him to the King, who had sometimes noticed him in passing.
But without seeming to notice the girl's surprise, he added: "Where are the remnants of this letter which you and the count picked up in the garden?" "M. de Chalusse placed them in his pocket." "They must be found. Tell the count's valet to look for them." The girl rang; but M. Casimir, who was supposed to be engaged in making preparations for the funeral, was not in the house.
He was a freed house-serf; in his tender youth had been taught music, then served as valet, could read and write, had read so much I could discover some few trashy books, and existed now, as many do exist in Russia, without a farthing of ready money; without any regular occupation; fed by manna from heaven, or something hardly less precarious.
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