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Never for an instant had the girl given the slightest intimation of why he, or rather the original Henley, had been wanted, and every effort to gain a clew of his business was thwarted sometimes, it seemed, intentionally. The table was deftly waited upon by the same dumb man, who was a man-of-all-work and marvelous capacity, but his orders were invariably given by signals.
'I'm about knocked up, said the unfortunate man. 'Knocked up, nonsense! Think what I've been through. I've been all day at the hardest work a man can do. Had he as usual got in first, leaving his man-of-all-work to follow, the man-of-all-work would have escaped. Melmotte, fearing such defection, put his hand on Lord Alfred's shoulder, and the poor fellow was beaten.
"Do you mean Mike?" he asked, "the faithful Mike, who has been in charge here ever since Mr. Butterwood took to travelling about for the good of his rheumatisms? Why, my dear young lady, the whole country looks upon Mike as a pattern man-of-all-work.
In these tents whole families of the well-to-do classes now elect to live, sometimes for weeks; rising early, bathing in the river, sometimes cooking their own food, or more often employing a servant or local man-of-all-work to do this, taking their meals in the open, and using the tents only to sleep in, or as a shelter from rain.
"We'll have more fun than we did in the caves of ice," for Ned had gone on the voyage to Alaska. The two youths went out to the shed where the rifle gallery had been built. The new electric weapon was out there, and Eradicate Sampson, the colored man, who was a sort of servant and man-of-all-work about the Swift household, had set up the scarecrow figure at the end of the gallery.
The sort of hen-coop stuck on behind is to be the abode of the Court Physician, Dr John Marsh whom, by the way, you'll have to knight and with whom is to be billeted the Court Jester, Man-at-Arms, Man-of-all-work and general retainer, little Buxley. So, you see, it's all cut and dry, though of course it will take some little time to finish the palace in all its multitudinous details.
"I don't know what you mean, citizen," she said with a shrug of her wide shoulders. "Oh! I meant nothing," rejoined Chauvelin, smiling. "I am so interested in your removal; busy man as I am, it has amused me to watch you. Whom have you got to help you with the furniture?" "Dupont, the man-of-all-work, from the concierge," said Simon curtly.
"Thanks, Peleg, and perhaps you'll never have one like me again and then you'll be dreadfully sorry." "Or glad," murmured Peleg. "Mum's the word, old man." "Oh, I never say nuthin, Master Thomas; you know that," returned the man-of-all-work. A number of the other pupils had been let into the secret, and, led by Dick, they ran off to the woods lining the Cedarville road.
With all his detestation of the English in general, and of this vessel in particular, the man-of-all-work had the labor-saving propensity of his countrymen; and it struck him as a good thing to make a "king's ship" aid an enemy's privateer by accepting the offer.
He had indulged, it is true, in vague yearnings for freedom, but these had been checked by hearing that liberty meant "working for Yankees" appalling news to an indolent soul. He was house-servant and man-of-all-work in a family whose means had always been limited, and whose men were in the Confederate army.
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