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Updated: June 7, 2025
On the walls hung the works of Vandyke and Correggio and Raphael and Rubens; but the pure faces of art's creation looked down on statesmen bending low to the beck of adventuresses, old men pawning a noble name for the leer of a Portsmouth, and women vying for the glance of a jaded king. At the far end of the apartment was a page-boy dressed as Cupid, singing love-songs.
The dog Balthasar, in attendance, lay on the ball as often as he could, and the page-boy fielded, till his face was like the harvest moon. And because the time was getting shorter, each day was longer and more golden than the last. On Friday night he took a liver pill, his side hurt him rather, and though it was not the liver side, there is no remedy like that.
"If I had my life over again," he answered slowly, "I should alter nothing." Lord Ettrick looked at him with raised eyebrows, chewing his under-lip reflectively. "I wonder how long you'll say that," he murmured. A page-boy threaded his way to the table and stood bashfully at a distance with a tarnished salver pressed against his buttons. "Wanted on the 'phone, sir," he whispered.
"And why not the Billingtons, worshipful Master Howland, lackey of the governor, and page-boy to his wife," demanded the voice that had interrupted Mistress Hopkins, and turning toward it, Howland confronted a short, square woman, not without a certain vulgar comeliness of her own, although now her buxom complexion was florid with anger and her black eyes snapping angrily, while the arms akimbo, the swaying figure, and raised voice betrayed Helena Billington for precisely what she was, a common scold and shrew.
The information came from a much less interesting, though, for aught I know, from a more impartial source the fat page-boy, Thomas, who is first tenor in the Wesleyan chapel, and therefore imagines that he understands music." "But how could Thomas " began Morris, when his father cut him short and answered: "Oh, I'll tell you, quite simply.
"I shall be very pleased if you will," Francis put in. "I'll go and tell the waiter to enlarge my table." He hurried off. On his way back, a page-boy touched him on the arm. "If you please, sir," he announced, "you are wanted on the telephone." "I?" Francis exclaimed. "Some mistake, I should think. Nobody knows that I am here." "Mr. Ledsam," the boy said. "This way, sir."
This programme was faithfully carried out, and a little after eleven they drew up before the Metropole. They asked for Dr. Hall, and a page-boy went in search of him. In a few minutes the little doctor came hurrying towards them. "Can you spare us a few minutes, Dr. Hall?" said Sir James pleasantly. "Let me introduce you to Miss Cowley. Mr. Hersheimmer, I think, you already know."
"This gentleman came under a misapprehension," Violet answered. "I am sorry, but the same thing applies to you. I do not receive gentlemen here." Saton bowed. "I am sorry," he said. The page-boy for whom Violet had rung, opened the door. The first comer passed out, with obvious reluctance. The moment that the door was closed, Violet turned towards Saton with a little exclamation.
Twist, till he went to Harvard, might be described as the page-boy, and afterwards in his vacations as the odd man about the house. Everything centred round their mother. She made a good deal of work, because of being so anxious not to give trouble. She wouldn't get out of the way of evil, but bleakly accepted it.
Joe did get strong, and came back to us, but no longer as a page-boy; he was under-gardener, and his time was spent among his favorite flowers and pet animals, until one day Dick wrote to say his father had bought more land to be laid out in gardens, and if Joe could be spared he and Dick could work together, and in time set up for themselves in the business.
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