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Updated: June 21, 2025
Common-looking men fling thin, greasy, tattered cloaks over their shoulders, with a proud air and inimitable grace; groups of half-clad children play in the dirt; whole families cook and eat in the street; while liveried turn-outs are dashing hither and thither.
There was Harris, with three servants, waiting for them, one with a light cart for their luggage, and two with an open carriage and two spanking bays, whose coats shone like satin. The servants, liveried, and top-booted, and buckskin-gloved, and spruce as if just out of a bandbox, were all smartness and respectful zeal. They got the luggage out in a trice, with Harris's assistance. Mr.
Finally, the bitter baptism through which we are passing, the life blood dearer than our own which is drenching distant fields, should remind us of the preciousness of distinctive American ideas. They who would seek in their foolish pride to establish the pomp of liveried servants in America are doing that which is simply absurd.
Hector's face became a study in rapidly changing expressions: from pompousness, to astonishment, then horror, and finally wrath when he realised that an intruder in stained cloth clothes and booted and spurred was actually making his way through the ranks of liveried and gaping servants and loudly demanding to speak with M. le Comte.
With mutual chaffing and laughter the young men at last went down to where a liveried coachman and a pair of handsome bays were in waiting. Taking the high front seat and gathering up the reins, Ik Stanton, with his friend Harold Van Berg at his side, bowled away towards the Park at a rapid pace. Harold Van Berg was, in truth, something of a paradox.
She took up the forty francs with a curious thrill of joy and fear. But then an untoward little incident took place. One of the liveried men-servants stepped forward. "Has Madame got her card of membership?" he inquired smoothly. Sylvia blushed painfully. No, she had not got a card of membership and there had been an implied understanding that she was only to look on, not play.
Presently a neat bamboo chair borne by three liveried coolies came at a trot down the street, and being placed before this last of the passengers, carried him away into the darkness which, with the suddenness of the tropics, had fallen upon the city. The stillness was broken only by the noise of escaping steam from the boat and the regular patter of the barefooted chair carriers.
"That won't do," said the young man brusquely; "I must see Mr. Keen to-day. I wrote last week for an appointment." The liveried darky was polite but obdurate. "Dis here am de 'pintment, suh," he explained persuasively. "But I want to see Mr. Keen at once," insisted Harren.
Luxurious sedans and limousines with liveried chauffeurs blocked their crossing. She turned to him, her hand extended. "Good afternoon," she said. "Sometime, soon perhaps, if you wish, we will meet again; you will hear from me, because because I think you meant it." She added the final words lightly and with a smile. "I did," he said. She turned to the driveway.
He was mopping his eyes with his red bandanner. I was consider'ble shook up myself. The dear land knows we was more used to huckleberry pies and clam chowder than we was to liveried servants and costly dishes, but there was something in the way that feller read off that slush that just worked the pump handle. A hog would have cried; I know I couldn't help it.
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