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The others, while partaking of some delicious duck's-liver pate, which the house-steward handed around, continued smiling. There was so much misery, said they; one must take everything into account: things would surely end by righting themselves. And the Baron himself declared, in a conciliatory manner: "It's certain that one might do something, though nobody knows exactly what.
In the rooms that had belonged to the deceased Keraunus now dwelt an Egyptian without wife or children a stern and prudent man who had done good service as house-steward to the prefect Titianus, and the living- room of the evicted family now looked dreary and uninhabited.
But these were but the secondary parts of a banquet; and the house-steward and bailiff, Lady Peveril's only coadjutors and counsellors, could not agree how the butcher-meat the most substantial part, or, as it were, the main body of the entertainment was to be supplied.
All even the master-masons and purveyors who had come on urgent affairs, drew back; only one elderly man, his sister Paulina's house-steward, caught hold of his chiton, stained as it was with smoke and scorched in many places, and said quickly and in a low tone: "My mistress greets you; she has things to speak of to you which will bear no delay; I am not to leave you till you have promised to go to see her to-day.
The Freiherr lifted up the bags one after the other and let them fall again into the coffer, delighted at the ringing clink of so much gold coin; then he turned round abruptly to the old house-steward, thanked him for the fidelity he had shown, and assured him that they were only vile tattling calumnies which had induced him to treat him so harshly in the first instance.
On one occasion at the Court, she lost a very considerable sum to the Duke of Orleans. On returning home, my grandmother removed the patches from her face, took off her hoops, informed my grandfather of her loss at the gaming-table, and ordered him to pay the money. My deceased grandfather, as far as I remember, was a sort of house-steward to my grandmother.
"Ay, ay, Aunt Bridget but I get the start of you, though you probably were born a week before-hand: talk of parsons, look at me, a regular grand pluralist monopolist, as any bishop can be; butler in doors, bailiff out of doors, land-steward, house-steward, cellar-man, and pay-master.
At the very moment when respectable determined villainy is in request, he fades away into a poltroon of the most insignificant type who is not able to hold his own against an ordinary house-steward. The prolixity of Cooper's introductions is a fault so obvious to every one that it needs here reference merely and not discussion.
"Master! why, curse your brazen impudence, how dare you call me master? Begone, you jade of perdition." "No more a jade of perdition, sir, than you are; nor I shan't begone till I gets a quarter's wages I tell you that." "You shall get whatever's coming to you; not another penny. The house-steward will pay you begone, I say!" "No, sir, I shan't begone till I gets a, quarter's salary in full.
The vicarage people certainly hold a place by themselves in the typical English scheme; nothing is more remarkable than the progress the Church has made socially in the last two hundred years. In the early eighteenth century the vicar was rather under than over the house-steward, and was deemed a fitting match for the housekeeper or any not too morally discredited discard.
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