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Kenelm Parker heard a conversation like the foregoing on one occasion and left the office rubbing his forehead. "There's two lunatics in that place," he told the postmaster. "And if I'd stayed there much longer and listened to their ravin's there'd have been another one." Kenelm seemed unusually contented and happy in his capacity as man-of-all-work at the High Cliff House.
The most ready way out of such difficulties was for the student to give his labour during certain hours of each day in return for his board. He was such an efficient house-servant that such an arrangement promised to be of advantage to both sides. He was appointed to the position of what we should call handy-man in the institution doorkeeper, porter, room-cleaner, man-of-all-work.
The old woman had strict orders never to spend more than three francs daily for the total expenses of the household. The office-boy was also man-of-all-work. The clerks took care of their own rooms.
He had no resource but the ill-paid, unhonored drudgery of the press. For the next few years he was a paragraphist, reporter, scissorer, and man-of-all-work for the New York papers, daily and weekly, earning but the merest subsistence.
"It's for your cramps, or fits, or whatever you've got, Peleg." "Cramps, or fits? I ain't got no cramps or fits! Are you crazy, Mrs. Green?" "Oh, Peleg, don't act so! You certainly have cramps, or indigestion. Come, take the medicine!" "That fer your medicine!" roared the angry man-of-all-work, and flung the bottle into the bonfire. "Oh, that medicine!" shrieked the matron.
During a recess, which preceded the hour when the man-of-all-work took us to the Charlemagne Lyceum, the well-to-do pupils used to breakfast with the porter, named Doisy.
Outside the city editor's office, sprawled over a pile of mail sacks, between the long table and the swinging door, lay Joe Quinn, man-of-all-work, boy, in fact, for he was but nineteen, big for his age, with arms and legs like cordwood and a back straight and hard as a plank. Joe's duty was to keep his eyes peeled, his ears open, and his legs in working order.
Though it's the squire himself as is to blame making a stupid fellow like that a sort o' man-of-all-work, just to save th' expense of having a proper steward to look after th' estate. And he's lost more by ill management o' the woods, I'll be bound, than 'ud pay for two stewards.
The apartment had two cots already in it and a third was speedily forthcoming, being put in place by a negro man-of-all-work. "Well, that long ride to-day certainly made me tired," remarked Phil, as he started to undress. "I could sleep standing up, as the saying goes." "I'm tired myself," answered Roger. "Wonder how the folks are making out in the Park," came from Dave.
It was only after he had sent off Madame's man-of-all-work with it that the incongruousness of challenging so old a man struck him. The Chevalier, on receiving the challenge, perceived at once the gravity of his own situation. The code of the time demanded his acceptance.
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