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'E 'ad nothing in common with the rest of the 'ouse-party, and was injudicious in 'is choice of forks. The very first night at dinner 'e took a steel knife to the ontray, and I see 'er ladyship look at him very sharp, as much as to say that scales had fallen from 'er eyes. It didn't take 'er long after that to become convinced that 'er 'eart 'ad led 'er astray." "Then you think ?"
As for me, I did at Rome as Rome does; and precious fun it used to be, sometimes. My friend the Baron insisted one night on my going behind the scenes; where, being a subscriber, he said I had what they call my ONTRAY. Behind, then, I went; and such a place you never saw nor heard of!
That's young Millard, or Millard, as he calls it. He's a sort of a dude, and I never could stand dudes. I asked Mr. Masters the other day whether the assistant cashier was worth so large a salary as five thousand dollars, and he said that that man had the entry the ontray, as he called it to the best houses in New York.
"Ontray!" cried her ladyship. The door opened. Mr. Herbert Stokes stood on the threshold. "I say, Lady T " he began, when he saw the scarlet vision, and stopped. "What is it?" inquired the wife of his stepfather rather a complicated relation. "I er wanted " drawled Bertie. "But it doesn't matter. Another time." "You needn't mind her," said Lady Turnour, with a nod toward me. "It's only my maid.
But my bisniss was at his country-house, where I made my first ontray into fashnabl life. I was knife, errint, and stable-boy then, and an't ashamed to own it; for my merrits have raised me to what I am two livries, forty pound a year, malt-licker, washin, silk-stocking, and wax candles not countin wails, which is somethink pretty considerable at OUR house, I can tell you.
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