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Ain't that so, boss?" The grocer was sure it was so. "Neberdeless, mind you" here the orator brimmed his glass from the bottle and swallowed the contents with a dry eye "mind you, a roytious man, sech as ministers of de gospel and dere body- sarvants, can take a LEETLE for de weak stomach."
"Sarvants keep goin' round and round in a ring, slow, but sartain, and for ever, like the arms of a great big windmill, shovin' dish after dish, in dum show, afore your nose, for you to see how you like the flavour; when your glass is empty it's filled; when your eyes is off your plate, it's off too, afore you can say Nick Biddle. "Folks speak low here; steam is valuable, and noise onpolite.
Home then, smoke a cigar, dress for dinner, and arrive at a quarter past seven. "Folks are up to the notch here when dinner is in question, that's a fact, fat, gouty, broken-winded, and foundered as they be. It's rap, rap, rap, for twenty minutes at the door, and in they come, one arter the other, as fast as the sarvants can carry up their names.
I've told our minister not to introduce me as an Attache no more, but as Mr. Nobody, from the State of Nothin', in America, that's natur agin. "But to get back to the dinner. Arter you are in marchin' order, you move in through two rows of sarvants in uniform.
'What! they've been put to bed too, have they? asked he. 'W-h-y no not zactly that, drawled the woman; 'but when sarvants are kept up three nights out of four, they must make up for lost time when they can. 'Well, mused Mr. Sponge, 'this is a bother, at all events; get no breakfast, lose my hunt, and perhaps a billet into the bargain.
Ain't the old sarvants enough What have they done to be turned out of doors?" "Who has been turned out of doors, Benson? No one by me," said Mabel, a good deal surprised by this harangue. "No, marm but they're dropping out of their places softly marm, as the leaves fall out yonder, without the least idee what wind strikes 'em.
Sarvants spile your habits here, and books spite your mind. I wouldn't swap ideas with any man. I make my own opinions, as I used to do my own clocks; and I find they are truer than other men's. The Turks are so cussed heavy, they have people to dance for 'em; the English are wus, for they hire people to think for 'em. Never read a book, Squire, always think for yourself.
Bad luck to her! she was near gettin' me into the stocks when I sowld her the dose of oak bark for the sarvants, to draw in their stomachs and shorten their feedin'. My faith, ould Lindsay 'ud have put me in them only for bringin' shame upon his wife."*
"The only fashionable people here was the Squire's sarvants; and they did look genteel, and no mistake. Elegant men, and most splendid lookin' women they was too. I thought it was some noble, or aid's, or big bug's family; but Mrs. Hodgins says they are the people of the Squire's about here, the butlers and ladies' maids; and superfine uppercrust lookin' folks they be too.
It's monstrous onconvenient and ridikilous to be a jumpin' up for everlastinly that way; you can't sit still one blessed minit. "'We think it pleasant, said he, 'sometimes to dispense with their attendance. That's the right time to have sarvants to tend on you. "'What an idea! said he, and he puckered up his pictur, and the way he stared was a caution to an owl.
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