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"And when she came in he told her, with tears in his eyes from sheer laughter, that his idiot of a servant-man was lovesick. "But my mother, instead of laughing, was deeply affected. "'Who is it that you have fallen in love with, my poor fellow? she asked. "He answered without hesitation: "'With Louise, Madame le Baronne.
A "wise man," however, found out that she was with the fairies; and by his directions the servant-man was successful at the end of the usual period of twelve months and a day in drawing her out of the fairy-ring at the place where she was lost. On their way home she told her master, the servant-man, and the others, that she would stay with them until her master should strike her with iron.
This winter he went to the city and got his wits sharpened, and when he came back he made a scheme. He sent word to Mrs. King that his old father was dying and would like to be converted too. Mrs. King travels at once with a horse and the strongest servant-man.
Her woman in attendance hurried towards her mistress; and Derrick, seeing that he could be of no further use, obeyed the command and left the room. Derrick was awakened the next morning by a servant-man who brought him a cup of fragrant coffee and the accompanying cigarette.
When the Nis had done his work he sat down to have his supper, and he found that the boy had been playing tricks with his porridge and made it unpleasant. So he made up his mind to be revenged, and he did it in this way. The boy slept with a servant-man in the loft. The Nis went up to them and took off the bed-clothes.
"She's not the first to whom that happened, since our Mother Eve." "A child by Victor Lecoq, Anthione Loisel's servant-man." "Ha! ha! So he won't have it?" "He won't have it." "What! not at all?" "No, no more than an ass that won't budge an inch, saving your presence." "What do you say to him yourself in order to make him decide?"
Brady described the splendours of the past; the servant-man and the servant-maid, who, according to her, once formed portion of her establishment; the four beautiful milch cows which her husband kept, besides sheep, and a horse an' car, and "bastes" innumerable; the three little boys they buried, and then Barney Barney, the jewel, who was now in Amerika.
And, besides, I have a little news that will please madame. Then she told me that, lying on a table in the great kitchen, was a bundle of letters, come by the courier from Strasburg that very afternoon: then, fresh from her conversation with me, she had hastily untied the string that bound them, but had only just traced out one that she thought was from Germany, when a servant-man came in, and, with the start he gave her, she dropped the letters, which he picked up, swearing at her for having untied and disarranged them.
The lady, with a sob, and almost ere the servant-man withdrew, ran towards the young prisoner, put her arms round his neck with real emotion and a maternal tenderness, sobbed over his pale cheek and kissed it in the midst of plentiful tears, and cried out "Oh, my Harry! Did I ever, ever think to see thee here?"
Planchet, leading his horse by the bridle, drew near to the gate and rang the bell, and immediately a servant-man with white hair and of erect stature, notwithstanding his age, presented himself. "Does Monsieur le Comte de la Fere live here?" asked Planchet. "Yes, monsieur, it is here he lives," the servant replied to Planchet, who was not in livery. "A nobleman retired from service, is he not?"
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