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Both brothers had received some elementary instruction by the munificence of a great European traveller, to whom their father had been a body-servant during his journeys in the interior of the country. In General Montero's case it enabled him to rise from the ranks.
He had been my father's body-servant, and, notwithstanding all the years that lay between, he knew me at once. Thereupon, as you would guess, I came immediately into some small portion of my kingdom. Though Darius was the patriarch, the other blacks were also fugitives from Appleby Hundred; and for the son of Roger Ireton there was instant vassalage and loyal service.
"Pray, what gave you the first intimation that all was not right between this lady and her uncle?" "The voluntary confession of Mr. Dumont," replied De Guy, readily. "You do not believe Mr. Dumont would have abandoned his purpose, just as it was in the very act of being consummated, without a strong motive." "True; I understand that the body-servant of the late Colonel Dumont is upon this island.
It was almost two years after Billy's departure from Selwoode that his body-servant, coming to rouse Frederick R. Woods one June morning, found him dead in his rooms. He had been ailing for some time. It was his heart, the doctors said; and I think that it was, though not precisely in the sense which they meant.
In his earlier life he had carried General Washington around in his arms, had waited on Henry Clay, and had been body-servant to Lafayette, besides holding the horses of half the generals of the War of 1812 at, least, he said so, and no man of his color dared contradict him.
He slowed down, tooting his horn vigorously as they rounded an awkward corner. When they were again on the level she reminded him: "You were saying that you were anxious to discover " "Oh, that man of mine! There isn't much to tell! He looked after me while I was up at the 'Varsity; when I left, I carried him off. I was always wandering, so I made him my body-servant.
It may have been the Basutos, or Marnham's body-servant, or Footsack, or a spark from the kitchen fire. At any rate it blazed merrily enough notwithstanding the marble walls, as a wood-lined and thatched building of course would do. On the whole I suspected the boy, who may very well have feared lest he should be accused of having had a hand in his master's death.
That will explain why Har Dyal Rutton, a gentleman of parts and cultivation, dared not live in India, and why because he was sworn to keep the secret he laid stress on the condition that you were not to mention his name." "Still, he gave me permission to talk to Dhola Baksh." "True; but it seems that Dhola Baksh had been his confidential body-servant in Kuttarpur, during his too-brief reign.
It wasn't a high one, but it was an appointment, anyway some kind of a lackey or body-servant, or something of that kind." The Paladin roused up and looked almost cheerful; for he was a believer in dreams, and in anything and everything of a superstitious sort, in fact. He said, with a rising hopefulness: "I wish it might come true. Do you think it will come true?"
He had no clerk; his papers and briefs being taken by his faithful body-servant and ex-slave "Jim" to another firm who did his office-work since the death of Major Stryker the Colonel's only law partner, who fell in a duel some years previous.
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