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It was perfectly clear to me that Luigi knew all about us. He addressed Mr. Bundercombe with an air of deep respect in which was visible, too, an air of relieved apprehension. He took our order himself, with the aid of an assistant maitre d'hotel, at whom Mr. Bundercombe glanced with some surprise. "Where is Louis?" he inquired. "Gone left!" Luigi answered. Mr.
"I, Selingman, declare it. We are here already. Good! The aspect of the place pleases me." The two men, arriving so early, received the distinguished consideration of a bowing maître d'hôtel as they entered the Austria. They were ushered at once to a round table in a favourable position.
He was oftentimes thus absent, but never when business or serious matters were concerned, so that his forgetfulness was amusing. He never could bear to hear of his domestic affairs. Pressed and tormented by his steward and his maitre d'hotel to overlook their accounts, that he had not seen for many years, he appointed a day to be devoted to them.
"At your service, madam; but let me tell Olbinett first." The steward of the yacht was an excellent maitre d'hotel, and might have been French for his airs of importance, but for all that he discharged his functions with zeal and intelligence. "Olbinett," said his master, as he appeared in answer to his summons, "we are going to have a turn before breakfast.
Any quiet corner would do for me, I told the Maitre d'Hotel, who relieved me of my sketch-trap anywhere out of the rain when it should again break loose, which it was evidently about to do, judging from the appearance of the clouds anywhere, in fact, where I could eat a filet smothered in mushrooms, and drink a pint of vin ordinaire in peace. "No, I expected no one."
Even the dignity of the heavy-weight, superior, self-satisfied, alleged Swiss maitre d'hotel was for the moment disturbed. Native s'fragis, neglecting their work, were voluble, gesticulatory, but quite unintelligible.
A more permanent interest is attached to the famous dinners of Baron d'Holbach, where twice a week men like Diderot, Helvetius, Grimm, Marmontel, Duclos, the Abbe Galiani and for a time Buffon and Rousseau, met in an informal way to enjoy the good cheer and good wines of this "maitre d'hotel of philosophy," and discuss the affairs of the universe.
Frederic Lightfoot, formerly maitre d'hotel in the service of Sir Francis Clavering, of Clavering Park, Bart., has begged leave to inform the nobility and gentry of shire that he has taken that well-known and comfortable hotel, the Clavering Arms, in Clavering, where he hopes for the continued patronage of the gentlemen and families of the county. "This ancient and well-established house," Mr.
The appointment of Frontenac to the post, esteemed as highly honorable, of maitre d'hotel in the royal household, immediately followed. There is a very curious book, the journal of Jean Heroard, a physician charged with the care of the infant Dauphin, afterwards Louis XIII., born in 1601.
"Monsieur's memory has soon returned," he answered, smiling. "I have been chief maitre d'hotel in the cafe there for some years. The last time I had the honor of serving monsieur there was only a few weeks ago." I remembered him perfectly now. I remembered, even, the occasion of my last visit to the cafe.
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