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Who knows but the electors at a future period, in days of corruption, may pick up a man-servant, a convict perhaps, and give him the dominion? Is any care taken that he shall be of perfect parts? Shall we, in affairs of a civil nature, leave a door open to lame men, bastards, eunuchs, and the devil knows what?
The two were breakfasting alone at the moment there was not even a man-servant in the room but Lord Fairholme had long ago established the golden rule that controversial topics were taboo during meals. Medenham laughed outright at the sudden change of topic.
He noticed that the glass which the man-servant was holding was empty. He had a dim recollection of something having been forced through his lips. Already he was beginning to feel himself again. "I was absolutely and entirely well," he declared stoutly, "both when I left home this morning and when I entered that room to wait for you.
His face was purple, almost black, and was turned towards the right. He was unshaven, but his gray hair was cut short. His eyes were wide open and staring. I saw him in profile, and, seen thus, he resembled the emperor. "An old woman, the nurse, and a man-servant were standing, one on each side of the bed.
He lived with one man-servant in a Georgian homestead with knocker and iron-railed steps, balanced eerily on the steep ascent of North Court Street beside the ancient brick court and colony house where his grandfather a cousin of that celebrated privateersman, Captain Whipple, who burnt His Majesty's armed schooner Gaspee in 1772 had voted in the legislature on May 4, 1776, for the independence of the Rhode Island Colony.
The house at Tite Street seemed deserted. For some time no one answered my knocking and ringing, and then a man-servant simply told me that Mr. Wilde was not in: he did not know whether Mr. Wilde was expected back or not; did not think he was coming back. I turned and went home. I thought Oscar would probably say to me again: "I can do nothing, Frank, nothing."
Hobbs was the man-servant of the family. He was characterised chiefly by a tendency to drop his h's in conversation, out of words to which they naturally belonged, and to pick them up and insert them in the most contradictory manner, in words with which they had no connection whatever.
The part of Delilah will be taken by Mademoiselle Blanche Temoigne, late of the Royal Opera House, St. Petersburg. Ten minutes later, Laverick rang the bell of her flat in Dover Street. A strange man-servant answered him. "I came to inquire after Mademoiselle Idiale," Laverick said. The man held out a tray on which was already a small heap of cards. Laverick, however, retained his.
She's sitting to Brierly that's my host for his latest effort. He's painting her as the Madonna or Britannia I really forget which. A new type, you know. The servants in this house are engaged for their faces. They had a villainous scoundrel of a man-servant a returned soldier engaged as Judas Iscariot, who bolted last week with the silver spoons. But all this is beside the point, Mr.
And as I believe William was boot boy at the Jutes', it is not surprising that he did not learn waiting." "I tell you, Evelyn, that our position demands a man-servant!" was the hot reply. "None of my family have ever attempted to run this house with women only. It would be unseemly unfitting incon " "Oh, I am no judge of course of what a Boyce may do!" said his wife carelessly.
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