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"Not very much," said D'Artagnan. "Really!" "I might even say that we have some reason to praise him." "Impossible!" "Yes, really; it is owing to him that we are free." "Owing to him?" "Yes, he had us conducted into the orangery by Monsieur Bernouin, his valet-de-chambre, and from there we followed him to visit the Comte de la Fere. Then he offered us our liberty and we accepted it.
The faithful Brinon, who was to attend me as valet-de-chambre, was likewise to discharge the office of governor and equerry, being, perhaps, the only Gascon who was ever possessed of so much gravity and ill-temper.
But what matters it? you have conquered your love now." "Ay," I said, with a laugh, "I have conquered it, and I am now about to find some other empress of the heart. What think you of the Lady Hasselton? a fair dame and a sprightly. I want nothing but her love to be the most enviable of men, and a French /valet-de-chambre/ to be the most irresistible."
"Now," said D'Artagnan, "you wouldn't be sorry to understand the plot, would you, Porthos?" "Well, no, not very." "Well, then, we shall go down into the court." "Yes." "We shall take the place of those two fellows." "Well?" "We will walk back and forth." "That's a good idea, for it isn't warm." "In a moment the valet-de-chambre will call the guard, as he did yesterday and the day before."
He protested that, except the wife of his porter, no woman in any dress whatever could be in his house, and that, to convince themselves, they were very welcome to accompany his valet-de-chambre into every room they wished to see.
One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him, until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half-pay purser in the navy a man who by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.
The valet-de-chambre thought he was bantering. "I speak seriously," said the Chevalier, "I give you a horse for the cards; and, what is more, take whichever you please, except my own." "Truly," said Monsieur de Turenne, "I am vastly pleased with the novelty of the thing; for I don't believe that a horse was ever before given for the cards." Trino surrendered at last.
Baleinier wishes to know if her Highness the Princess can receive him," asked the valet-de-chambre. "Certainly. Beg him to walk in." "There is also a gentleman that M. l'Abbe appointed to be here at noon, by whose orders I have left him waiting in the oratory." "'Tis the person in question," said the marquis to the princess. "We must have him in first. 'Twould be useless for Dr.
Voltaire says that "no man ever was a hero in the eyes of his valet-de-chambre." I am curious to know whether the valet of the First Consul be an exception to this maxim.
He protested that, except the wife of his porter, no woman in any dress whatever could be in his house, and that, to convince themselves, they were very welcome to accompany his valet-de-chambre into every room they wished to see.
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