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It was Mathews, the head-groom of the Durwents. 'Yes, said the American, pausing, 'very pleasant. 'It looks sort of as if we was going to 'ave some ditherin's wi' Germany, Mr. Selwyn. 'It does. I don't see how war can be averted now. 'It's funny Mister Malcolm ain't 'ome yet, sir. Has 'is moberlizin' orders came? 'There's a War Office telegram in the house.
"I shall take good care not to fail to call," earnestly replied the fair Lady Bountiful. She telephoned immediately to her head-groom, ordering ham to bring around her brougham at three o'clock. At the same hour that the elegant carriage of Zibeline was conducting her to the Hotel de Montgeron, M. Desvanneaux descended from a modest fiacre at the gate of the hotel occupied by Eugenie Gontier.
The Duke of Lucca, when on a visit to this country, perceiving the lad's merit, took him into his service, and promoted him, through the several degrees of command in his stable, to be head-groom of the ducal stud.
"And her tears drop down on a cockade which she is sewing on to a hat for Sady, who is to be head-groom. "'Then, why, miss, are those dear eyes so red? say I. "'Because I have the toothache, she says, 'or because because I am a fool. Here she fairly bursts out. 'Oh, Mr. Harry! oh, Mr. Warrington! You are going to leave us, and 'tis as well.
"I notice it in the palm-trees," said the gardener, "you want so many cudgels that their crowns will soon be as bare as a moulting bird." "We should do as the master does," said the head-groom, "and get sticks of ebony they last a hundred years."
He was harshly treated and ran away; wandered to some training-stables near Newmarket; attracted the favorable notice of the head-groom, was employed among the other boys, and liked the occupation. Growing up to manhood, he had taken service in private families as a groom. This was the story of twenty-six years of Michael's life.
" From being the owner of two thousand acres to becoming a kind of head-groom on a ranch? What was the cause of your flight?" "Flight! I came in one of the steamers of the Company for which your firm are the agents. Eleven days it took to come from Glasgow to Quebec." Again the court rippled, again the attendant intervened. Burlingame was nonplussed this time, but he gathered himself together.
Twelve pounds a year his Lordship paid towards the omnibus, and Scroope was not absolutely dissevered from the world. The Earl himself was never seen out of his own domain, except when he attended church. This he did twice every Sunday in the year, the coachman driving him there in the morning and the head-groom in the afternoon.
But how great was the impression which they did make on those who witnessed them may be seen in the unanimity with which the chroniclers of the time record her forbidding her postilions to drive over a field of corn which lay between her and the stag, because she would rather miss the sight of the chase than injure the farmer; and relate how, on one occasion, she gave up riding for a week or two, and sent her horses back from Compiègne to Versailles, because the wife of her head-groom was on the point of her confinement, and she wished her to have her husband near her at such a moment; and on another, when the horse of one of her attendants kicked her, and inflicted a severe bruise on her foot, she abstained from mentioning the hurt, lest it should bring the rider into disgrace by being attributed to his awkward management.
There was a butler, and a housekeeper, and various footmen, and a cook with large wages, and maidens in tribes to wait upon each other, and a colony of gardeners, and a coachman, and a head-groom, and under-grooms. All these lived well under the old Earl, and knew the value of their privileges. There was much to get, and almost nothing to do.
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