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I located the claim so as to include the cliff and spring and when I made out the registration papers, I said: "Gentlemen, what shall we call the mine?" "Name it the Maldonado," said Carson. "What!" exclaimed Buchan, turning an ashen paleness. "The Major Domo," replied Carson, looking somewhat abashed. "Name it the Aberdeen," said Buchan.
Wingrave spent half an hour examining his treasures, leaving his attendant astonished. "A millionaire who understands!" he exclaimed softly as he resumed his seat. "Miraculous!" Wingrave passed into the hall, and summoned his major domo. "Show me the ballroom," he ordered, "and the winter garden."
Quietly the young woman at the head of things was revolutionizing the life of the valley by transforming it from a pastoral to a farming community. This morning, having arranged with the major domo the work of the day, Valencia appeared on the porch dressed for riding. She was going to see the water turned on to the new ditches from the north lateral.
I turned my attention, therefore, to the Italian end of the carriage road, and to seeing how and when I could reach Domo Dossola, the alternative suggestion made by Tiler. There would be no difficulty as to that, and I found I could be there in good time the same evening. I worked it out on the tables and it looked easy enough. Leave Lucerne by the St.
She immediately rang the bell, and was answered by the major domo, the only servant who had not retired to rest, being determined to await the return of Juan. As he entered, the door leading to the ante-chamber was also quickly opened, and on the threshold appeared five masked men, who were evidently unprepared to find more than one inmate in the sick chamber.
The major domo did not know him, and was going to bundle him out again, when one of the chamber-women called him from the top of the stairs "Eh, M. Imbert, it is Madame's young fellow," and poor Philippe, blushing like a wedding night, ran up the stairs, shaking with happiness and delight.
It took him a year to get rid of his headache, and it actually required three-quarters of the Treasury Reserve to provide gold enough to cure him." "It must be a terrible place to fall overboard in," I suggested. "It is, if you fall head first," said the Major Domo, "and my observation is that most people do."
The chef and his assistants, the butler and his assistants, the major domo, and the secretaries would leave the villa in a string of carriages, followed by cartloads of baggage, and install themselves on the yacht. Or the cause of our sudden departure might be that Mr.
"Did you dance with Will Douglas?" catechised the grizzled doctor, declining to be shunted off on a philological discussion. Next to acting as legal major domo to E.M. Pierce, Douglas's most important function in life was apparently to fetch and carry for the reigning belle of Worthington. His devotion to Esmé Elliot had become stock gossip of the town, since three seasons previous.
In capitulo simply means "in chapter," and in loco capitulari and in domo capitulari are vague phrases which may either mean a chapter-house, or a place used for the sittings of the chapter. At any rate, he thinks the chapter-house was not begun until after 1320, and the passage leading to it is still later.
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