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"Well, then, leaving the entire invention of the details to you, I shall reserve to myself a general superintendence over the execution." "In what way?" "I mean, that you will make of me, on that day, a major-domo, a sort of inspector-general, or factotum something between a captain of the guard and manager or steward. I will look after the people, and will keep the keys of the doors.
Jewelry was not forbidden. A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber. Their petition must be carried in the hand. In the throne-room where ladies were permitted to gaze to their hearts' content on the splendid display of Japanese porcelain the major-domo would marshal the company in a double file, and there they would wait until his Holiness appeared.
"And now adios. Unless I bring her back with me you'll never see me again." "But, Felipe, lad, where away now?" "To Santa Teresa." "You are mad. Do you fancy you can reach it before midnight?" insisted the major-domo. "I will, Rafael; I will." "Then Heaven be with you." But the old fellow's words were lost in a wild clatter of hoofs, as Felipe swung his pony around and drove home the spurs.
After looking round the dimly lighted room where the paper was dropping in rags from the walls, the gentleman seated himself by a stove which was roaring and smoking in the corner. Attracted by the noise the Count made in coming in and disposing of his cloak, the major-domo presently appeared.
The man on guard would have opened the door, but when I went to enter, a major-domo who was standing by, muttering with two or three of his kind, hastened forward and stopped me. 'Your business, Monsieur, if you please? he said inquisitively; while I wondered why he and the others looked at me so strangely. 'I am M. de Berault, I answered sharply. 'I have the entree. He bowed politely enough.
All persons engaged in the enterprise were immediately condemned to death, and the Spanish soldier executed without delay. The others being considered, on account of their loyalty to their master as deserving a commutation of punishment, were sent to the galleys. The major-domo, whose ill-timed gallantry had thus cost Montigny his liberty, received two hundred lashes in addition.
A companion, for whom she selected an elderly unmarried lady who belonged to an impoverished noble family, accompanied her in her walks; a major-domo governed the four men-servants and the maids of the household; Frau Lamperi retained her position as lady's maid; the steward and cook attended to the kitchen and the cellar; and two pages, with a pretty one-horse carriage, lent an air of elegance to her style of living.
There are full and capacious cellars on the premises of course cellars containing a sort of well in which the books of the firm were buried at the time of the Birmingham riots; but, so far as outward appearance is concerned, Sir Wilfrid Lawson or the top Major-Domo of the Band of Hope might pass by the lintels of the doorway in Lower Priory without a sigh. With regard to Messrs.
Then he put on his garments, and the Apostles let down their clothes, which they had girded up before eating the Paschal Lamb. Institution of the Holy Eucharist. By command of our Lord, the major-domo had again laid out the table, which he had raised a little; then, having placed it once more in the middle of the room, he stood one urn filled with wine, and another with water underneath it.
Will you be my major-domo?" Bucky's heart leaped. He had been thinking of how he must report almost immediately to HurryUp Millikan, of the rangers. Now, he could resign from that body and stay near his love. Certainly things were coming his way. "I'd like to try it, seh," he answered. "I may not make good, but I sure would like to have a chance at it." "Make good! Of course you'll make good.
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