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When he serves as footman, the second man may either be requested to don complete car livery, or he may wear a long footman's overcoat; top hat and gloves over his house livery. A clean shaven face and well-brushed, close-clipped hair are pleasing characteristics of the second man.
Thus, in whatever direction he went, he carried certain victory with him. This was particularly evident, when, hastily mounting his horse, he rode with a footman's shield to the left wing, which was almost giving way, by the fact of showing himself he restored the battle, pointing out the rest of the line gaining the victory.
The nearer the door they stood, so much the greater was their haughtiness; till the footman's boy, who always wore slippers and stood in the doorway, was almost too proud even to be looked at. 'It must be awful! said little Gerda, 'and yet Kay has won the Princess! 'If I had not been a crow, I should have taken her myself, notwithstanding that I am engaged.
Esgar was one of those who wear their honesty long but loose: it was his first disloyal act in business. "Dishonesty made me dishonest," was his excuse. Valeat quantum. John Shaw, a steady footman, had saved and saved, from twenty-one years old to thirty-eight, for "Footman's Paradise," a public-house.
I had not a farthing of my own he would serve me for nothing nay, work for me. "Sure," he said, taking off my coat and bringing me my gown, "Sure, your honour was not made to work." To cheer me he went on with some foolish footman's gossip that there lacked not ladies with jointures who would marry me, and be thankful. I smiled sadly. "That was when I was Mr. Carvel's heir, Banks."
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him. or next day, maybe, the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened. 'How am I to get in? asked Alice again, in a louder tone. 'ARE you to get in at all? said the Footman.
That was what she was rapidly considering while the footman stood waiting. Leo would come, and then presently Lord Holme would come. And then? Then doubtless would happen the scene she longed for, longed for with a sort of almost crazy desire such as she had never felt before. She glanced up and saw an astonished expression upon the footman's pale face. How long had she kept him there waiting?
The reading was disturbed by a carriage driving up to the door, and a knock, a tremendously grand and forcible footman's knock, which made Miss Leaf start in her easy chair. "But it can't be visitors to us. We know nobody. Sit still, Elizabeth." It was a visitor, however, though by what ingenuity he found them out remained, when they came to think of it, a great puzzle.
And the door was scarce closed and locked again, before they began stripping off their clothes. To my astonishment, Fox handed me a great frieze coat, which he bade me don, as the others were doing. Some were turning their coats inside out; for luck, said they; and putting on footman's leather guards to save their ruffles.
She seemed as an unattainable star seen from the depths of foul pits. "Stop!" he cried from the window. "Here we are, sir," said the cabman. The carriage had drawn up, and a footman's alarum awakened one of the houses. The wretched cabman had likewise drawn up right under the windows of the carriage. Wilfrid could have pulled the trigger of a pistol at his forehead that moment.
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