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Ah, Sire! to the King, 'how I thank you for letting me be with you. After her Majesty descended her gentleman-usher.
Woodward's business came up on the next Tuesday, Dec. 31, when Mr. Serjeant Whitfield shall peruse them over, and report them to this House; and, because the said Woodward is now in custody of the Gentleman-Usher, it is ordered, He shall be released, giving his own bond to appear before this House when he shall be summoned." Woodward's offence, it would therefore seem, was considered venial.
When men are pleased with each other, conversation soon gets beyond the ordinary surfaces to talk; and an exchange of deeper opinions was speedily effected by what old Barnes* quaintly enough terms, "The gentleman-usher of all knowledge, Sermocination!" * In the "Gerania."
From his musings, he was roused by the joyful sound of the dinner bell, on which the Highlander, lately his guard, became his gentleman-usher, and marshalled him to the hall, where a table with four covers bore ample proofs of Highland hospitality. Sir Duncan entered, conducting his lady, a tall, faded, melancholy female, dressed in deep mourning.
Look you, there is scarce a woman walks this High-gate with a silk screen or a pearlin muffler, but, as I said before, she has either gentleman-usher before her, or kinsman, or lover, or husband, at her elbow, or it may be a brace of stout fellows with sword and buckler, not so far behind but what they can follow close But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring."
La Billardiere's man had the air of a gentleman-usher, an innovation which gave an aspect of dignity to the division. Pillars of the ministry, experts in all manners and customs bureaucratic, well-warmed and clothed at the State's expense, growing rich by reason of their few wants, these lackeys saw completely through the government officials, collectively and individually.
Hogarth, breaking into a rage, leapt up, with, "I swear to God that not one step does she move out of this country !" and rushed to a bell: a gentleman-usher came. "What about going?" "All will be ready in fifteen minutes, my Lord King". "I feel bad: say ten minutes; tell the Lord Chamberlain". "Yes.
"Is there anything remarkable in the sound of a carriage, that it should occasion so much joy, mademoiselle? Are carriages so rare within the gates of the Hotel Soissons?" The door opened, and the gentleman-usher, with his gilded staff, appeared on the threshold. "Madame la Marquise Dupont de Lanin," cried he, and the lady followed the announcement at once.
Cholmely, that is first gentleman-usher to the Queene, and was a messenger to her from the King of Portugall, and is a fine gentleman; but had received many affronts from Mr. Montagu did carry himself very poorly in the business, and hath lost his honour for ever with all people in it. This afternoon Mr.
Sebastian's, manoeuvreing irregular verbs at Vittoria, acting as gentleman-usher at Valladolid, serving his Spanish Majesty round Cape Horn, fighting with storms and sharks off the coast of Peru, and now commencing as book-keeper or commis to a draper at Paita, does she not justify the character that I myself gave her, just before dismissing her from St. Sebastian's, of being a 'handy' girl? Mr.
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