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Sewell got me a place, a sort of servant's place, and when I lost that I came to be the man-of-all work at the St. Albans." In her eyes the pity was changing to admiration; his confession which he had meant to be so abject had kindled her fancy like a boastful tale. "How little we know about people and what they have suffered!
As the girls from the east wing crossed the main hall in order to reach their rooms, they saw Doctor Weldon in earnest conversation with Marshall, the office boy; Belva, the man-of-all work, and Herman who acted as night-watchman. "I do not anticipate a bit of trouble," she was saying.
"Never more welcome, since you come as defender as well as guest." "Yes, aunt; think of a red-whiskered Yank paying his respects instead of me." "Don't suggest such horrors, please." The gentlemen now joined Miss Lou in the parlor, while under Mrs. Baron's supervision Zany, and Chunk, as gardener and man-of-all- work, with the aid of others soon set the two tables.
She hid her face in her hands, whilst a few sobs shook her whole frame; then she resumed more calmly: "I had seen nothing of Armand. I wondered where he was, and I knew that he would be eating out his heart with anxiety for me. But God was watching over me. At first I was transferred to the Temple prison, and there a kind creature a sort of man-of-all work in the prison took compassion on me.
"My dear Renshaw, with all Europe worrying Ismail, with France in the butler's pantry and England at the front door, do the bowab and the sarraf go out to take air on the housetops, and watch the sun set on the Pyramids and make a rainbow of the desert? I am the bowab and the sarraf, the man-of-all- work, the Jack-of-all-trades, the 'confidential' to the Oriental spendthrift.
If the justice of the peace was the man-of-all- work, as has been said, of the government of the time, the constable was the tool and instrument with which he worked. The constable was required to arrest all persons who were to be bound over by the justices to keep the peace, and all felons and other ill-doers for whom a warrant had been issued, and to bring them before the justices into jail.
"And so you thought you'd tell the funny little story to Nahoum as quick as could be, eh? He likes funny stories, same as you damn, nice, funny little stories, eh?" There was something chilly in Lacey's voice now, which Higli did not like; something much too menacing and contemptuous for a mere man-of-all- work to the Inglesi. Higli bridled up, his eyes glared sulkily.
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