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The small town in which our house was situated boasted of a market weekly, and there we resolved to make the important purchase. Accordingly, we sent our man-of-all-work to inspect those offered for sale. Shortly he returned, accompanied by a small black cow, with a calf a week old.
Never did this singular lover arrive without a bouquet made of the rarest flowers from the greenhouse of his old partner, Monsieur Grossetete, the only person who as yet knew of the approaching marriage. The man-of-all-work went every evening to fetch the bunch, which Monsieur Grossetete made himself.
For three years he had been old man Cardigan's chauffeur and man-of-all-work about the latter's old-fashioned home, and in the former capacity he drove John Cardigan's single evidence of extravagance a Napier car, which was very justly regarded by George Sea Otter as the king of automobiles, since it was the only imported car in the county.
I am very glad to hear there is anything like communion begun between them. Weir will get good from him." "My man-of-all-work is going to leave me. I wonder if the old man would take his place?" "I do not know whether he is fit for it. But of one thing you may be sure if Old Rogers does not honestly believe he is fit for it, he will not take it. And he will tell you why, too."
He himself, with the help of a lad who was his man-of-all-work in Chelsea, nailed up the draperies, hung the pictures, and issued the invitations for the private view. About a hundred people came to the private view. His reputation was not yet dead, and there was much curiosity about his circumstances.
He was still in the lane when Simpson, the man-of-all-work at the Mariners' Arms, crept out of some hiding-place in the deserted outbuilding, and stood suddenly face to face with Robson. The man was white with fear and rage. 'Here, tak' thy beast, and lead her wheere she'll noane hear yon cries and shouts. She's fairly moithered wi' heat an' noise.
At this critical juncture, old Cudjoe, the black man-of-all-work, put his head in at the door, and wished "Missis would come into the kitchen;" and our senator, tolerably relieved, looked after his little wife with a whimsical mixture of amusement and vexation, and, seating himself in the arm-chair, began to read the papers.
In the yard, at the fountain, stood the man-of-all-work, who, as butler pro tem., was washing plates and glasses; while close by, on the flags, sat the clerk of the post-office polishing and uncorking the bottles which the host had just brought from the cellar in honor of his friends. Monsieur Etienne surveyed his notes of preparation, and gave an approving nod.
They are the first I have seen." "Your man-of-all-work sent them to me," said Christine, daintily dipping one after another in sugar. "Well, that is a good joke." "A most excellent one, which I am enjoying, and in which you may share. Help yourself." "And what has led him to this extravagant favor?" "Consistency, I suppose.
"Most affectionately, R. E. Lee. "P. S. I received a letter from F : all well. "R. E. L." Sam was the gardener and man-of-all-work at Lexington. My father took great interest in his garden and always had a fine one. Still, in Savannah, he again writes to his wife acknowledging the letters forwarded to him and commenting on the steps being taken: "Savannah, Georgia, April 11, 1870.
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