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He always spoke of Jonah with a vague terror in his blue eyes, convinced that he had once employed Satan as an errand-boy. People were surprised to find that Jonah meant to live in the rooms over the new shop, when he could well afford to take a private house in the suburbs. It was said he treated his wife like dirt; that they lived like cat and dog; that he grudged her bare living and clothing.
"At your service, madam," said he in very good English. Nora lifted her great arms. "And he does speak English! Who knows but he understood all I said, and what the parrot said too. Poll, you go into your cage! 'At your service, madam! And did you hear it, Lucy? No errand-boy ever spoke in the loikes o' that before! I'd think h'd been brought up among the quality.
Palfrey's receipt for brawn, hers being pronounced on all hands to be superior to his own as he informed her in a very flattering letter carried by his errand-boy. Now Mrs.
I'll hold your bundle for you while you run up." "All right!" said the errand-boy, and, suspecting nothing, he surrendered his parcel, and taking the note and the dime, ran upstairs. No sooner was he out of sight than the young man began to walk off rapidly with the bundle.
Blair was not degenerating consequently he was honestly wretched. His attempts to find something to do were not without humor to his mother, who kept herself informed, of course, of all his "business" ventures. "What! he wants the Dalzells to take him on? What for? Errand-boy? That's all he's good for. But I'm afraid two dollars and a half a week won't buy him many china beetles!"
"And you've heard nothing, sir," Shepherd asked, speaking in a hoarse whisper, "of Mr. Morrison?" "Nothing," Laverick answered. "Mr. Morrison is abroad." The man wiped his forehead with his hand. "Of course!" he muttered. "A good job, too, for him!" On the following morning, Laverick surprised his office cleaner and one errand-boy by appearing at about a quarter to nine.
"In conversation with some one! with whom? Perhaps little Chloe? her mother? some one of the domestics?" I listened. "By Heaven! it is the voice of a man! Who can he be? Scipio? No; Scipio cannot yet have left the stable. It cannot be he. Some other of the plantation people? Jules, the wood-chopper? the errand-boy, Baptiste? Ha! it is not a negro's voice.
The errand-boy was coming up the passage as they emerged the same errand-boy they had seen half an hour ago in the manager's room; but, as their classical friends would say "Quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore!" His two arms were strung with the handles of frothing tin cans from the elbow to the wrist. He carried two tin cans in his mouth.
"Horner came down, and Sweetie Bob, that's the errand-boy, and there was a bother about the money, for Bob wasn't to leave anything without being paid, and while they were jawing about that, Merry laid hold of me and said, 'Come and look for the aralia. They got to shouting and singing, and I don't think they saw what was doing.
I've been errand-boy and courier, golf-caddie and footman, beau, cook, land agent, and mother to you all, and I guess I can be a lodge-keeper as well as not." Francesca had her choice of residing either with Salemina or with me, during our week of separation, and drove in my company to Rosaleen Cottage, to make up her mind.
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