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Updated: June 1, 2025
Had I been Jane I would have sat in the arbour this morning, with a pretty, cool white dress on, reading poetry or some light romance, or working at my embroidery till my lover came, instead of being found covered with paint and with the footman's baize apron on. The two ladies moved closer to the window and watched the young man crossing the lawn.
A little way down the room I saw the black face and woolly head of Bill Richmond, in a purple-and-gold footman's livery destined to be the predecessor of Molineaux, Sutton, and all that line of black boxers who have shown that the muscular power and insensibility to pain which distinguish the African give him a peculiar advantage in the sports of the ring.
"I believe that taking that boy from his home makes us responsible." "And do I hinder you from catechizing him to your heart's content? or sending him to the school of design?" Again Eleonora was silent. Perhaps the balancing of the footman's head occupied her mind. At any rate, no more was said till the sisters had reached their home.
"No; whatever you may say, there is some mysticism in him; without mysticism there can be no poetry," she said, with one of her black eyes angrily following the footman's movements as he was drawing the curtains. "Without poetry, mysticism is superstition; without mysticism, poetry is prose," she continued, with a sorrowful smile, still not losing sight of the footman and the curtains.
Do as I tell you and you will earn a hundred pounds." The footman's eyes began to glow, almost like a cat's in the twilight. "Why, I could buy the library near twelve times over," he murmured. "The library?" said Malkiel, whose brain had suddenly become strangely clear. "Ah, sir Dr. Carter's," returned Gustavus, beginning to tremble. "Dr. Carter's!" whispered Malkiel, excitedly.
And he hawed awhile and then burst out: "Your honour must know then that I belongs to the footman's club in Berkeley Square, where I meets all the servants o' quality " "Yes," I said, wondering what footman's tale he had to tell. "And Whipple, he's a hintimate o' mine, sir." He stopped again. "And who may Whipple be?" "With submission, sir.
The coachman cracked his whip, the coach creaked off down the drive, I in the trees one side waiting for them to pass, and wondering what Nick was to do. He had let go my bridle, folded his whip in his hand, and with a shout of "Come on, Davy," he ran for the coach, which was going slowly, caught hold of the footman's platform, and pulled himself up. What possessed the footman I know not.
To- day the footman's hands must be clean; to-morrow he must wear gloves, and in his clean gloves he must present a letter on a clean salver.
Jones's compliments, and he hopes you'll excuse him, ma'am," was the footman's answer on his return; "but it's very late, and he promised to bring Miss Coventry back by eleven." "Well, I'm sure," said Mrs. Lumley, "if I was you, Kate, I shouldn't stand his anticipating his authority in this way. Never mind; be a good girl, and do as you're bid pop your bonnet on. Shall I lend you an extra shawl?
The gentleman had something striking and noble in his whole appearance; but his address and accent, which were those of a foreigner, did not suit the fancy of my English captain, who, putting on the surly air, with which he thought it for his honour and for the honour of his country to receive a Frenchman, as he took this gentleman to be, replied in the least satisfactory manner possible, and in the short language of some seamen, 'Your footman's an Englishman, sir; has been pressed for an able-bodied seaman, which I trust he'll prove; he's aboard the tender, and there he will remain. The foreigner, who, notwithstanding the politeness of his address, seemed to have a high spirit, and to be fully sensible of what was due from others to him as well as from him to them, replied with temper and firmness.
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