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Hiram and the major -domo brought up the rear, the latter grumbling as he entered the building: If so be that the king of France had so much as a house to live in that would lay alongside of Pauls, one might put up with their jaw. Its more than flesh and blood can bear to hear a Frenchman run down an English church in this manner.
After some hesitation and a spasmodic clearing of the throat, the old man asked, "Will you accompany me, young sir, upon a short walk to the city?" "Why should I go to the city?" "Ah er domo! it is, as you know, the centre of the universe, and has many wonderful sights, great temples, theatres, wide shops for selling clothes " "I care nothing for these things."
Fame, bile tumet jecur: Urbane, mitte opem, precor. Tibi enim cor humanum Non a malis alienum: Mihi mens nee male grato, Pro a te favore dato. Ex gehenna debitoria, Vulgo, domo spongiatoria. He adds that he hopes to have his Ode on the British Nation done that day. This Ode, which is given in the Gent.
She had been provided in Ghent with a handsome establishment: "with a duenna, six other women, a major domo, two pages, one chaplain, an almoner, and four men-servants," and this seemed a sufficiently liberal scheme of life for the widow of a commissary.
"Quasi lignum vitae," says Pope Alexander IV. in a constitution addressed to the University of Paris in 1256, "Quasi lignum vitae in Paradiso Dei, et quasi lucerna fulgoris in Domo Domini, est in Sancta Ecclesia Parisiensis Studii disciplina."
Harrington had asked Eve to accept a dress allowance of forty pounds a year, and Eve accepted for her uncle. Besides this she had a little ready money the result of the sale of the contents of the Casa d'Erraha. A person who looked like a butler or a major- domo had gone over from Barcelona to Palma to attend this sale; and the local buyers laughed immoderately at him in their sleeves.
When the concierge tips his hat, I tip mine. Since Giovanni is gone, suppose we pack up? There's little to do, as the trunks are as we left them. But I say, how is it that all these carabinieri we see are so tall? The Neapolitan is invariably short and thick-set." "They come from the north as far as Domo d'Ossola; mountaineers. Italy has a good policy regarding her military police.
Promotion should go according to length of sarvice, said the major- domo; and if-so-be that they ship a hand for my berth, or place a new steward aft, I shall throw up my commission in less time than you can put a pilot-boat in stays.
He looks after everything, and an uncommon sharp domo he is, too, Jim says. Nobody can do him a penny piece. And then there is Mr. Fortescue's body-servant; he's a dark man, with a big scar on one cheek, and rings in his ears. They call him Rumun." "Nonsense! There's no such name as Rumun." "That's what I told Jim. He said it was a rum 'un, but his name was Rumun, and no mistake."
It was pretty heavy, but I bore up under it; the helmet and the necklace, the shoes and the girdle were adjusted; the staff was placed in my hand, and with beating heart I emerged once more into the corridor and stood before the door leading into the audience-chamber. "Remove the goggles," whispered the Major Domo. "Never!" I cried. "I shall be blinded." "Nonsense!" said he, quickly.
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