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Updated: June 13, 2025
Wakefield, the smart maid servant, and the dirty little footboy raise a hue and cry, through London streets, in pursuit of their fugitive lord and master? Wonderful escape!
Many an impecuniary epicure has gloated over his locked-up warrant for future wealth, as a means of realizing the dream of his namesake in the "Alchemist": My footboy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, goodwits, lampreys.
My father, however, being supposed a respectable man, because he was dressed as a Quaker the very reason, by the bye, why anybody who knew aught of the Quakers would have suspected him to be a rogue would have been let go, had I not made my appearance, dressed as his footboy.
Where a guest so experienced and so vigilant as Mrs Grey is expected, the anxiety is redoubled, and the servants are sure to discover it by some means or other. Morris woke, this Saturday morning, with the feeling that something great was to happen that day; and Sally began to be sharp with the footboy as early as ten o'clock.
I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy." "Yet, at least," said Melville, "let me try fair means in the first instance. Violence to a lady would stain your scutcheon for ever. Or await till my Lord Ruthven comes."
Ludgate sat down to cards in unusually good spirits, firmly believing Mrs. la Mode's comfortable assertion, "that the spring hat made her look ten years younger." She was in the midst of a panegyric upon Mrs. la Mode's taste, when Jack, the footboy, came behind her chair, and whispered that three men were below, who desired to speak to her immediately. "Men! gentlemen, do you mean?" said Mrs.
Edward told his story at length, suppressing his quarrel with Fergus; for being himself partial to Highlanders, he did not wish to give any advantage to the Colonel's national prejudice against them. 'Are you sure it was your friend Glen's footboy you saw dead in Clifton Moor? 'Quite positive.
The shabby footboy, summoned by Pansy he might, tarnished as to livery and quaint as to type, have issued from some stray sketch of old-time manners, been "put in" by the brush of a Longhi or a Goya had come out with a small table and placed it on the grass, and then had gone back and fetched the tea-tray; after which he had again disappeared, to return with a couple of chairs.
De Brechin, ye know, held out Angus as long as he could, and was finally made captive." "Aye, and treated with far greater lenity than the villain deserved. He will never be a Randolph." "A Randolph! Not a footboy in Randolph's train but is more Randolph than he.
They were enraptured; they loudly expressed their admiration. "What a capital idea the Prince had had! How well the thing had been managed! This was much better than flying the country, by Dieppe, like D'Haussez; or by Membrolle, like Guernon-Ranville; or being captured, disguised as a footboy, and blacking the boots of Madame de Saint Fargeau, like poor Polignac!"
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