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"Call up all the stablemen, and have two horses saddled as quick as possible," continued Christy to the man. "What's that for, Christy?" asked Paul, who had succeeded in quieting the fears of Miss Florry.
Taxes on city house $ 3,200 Repairs, improvements and minor alterations 2,500 Rent of country house average 7,000 Gardeners and stablemen, and so on 800 Servants' payroll 7,800 Food supplies 15,000 Light and heat gas, electricity, coal and wood 2,400 Saddle-horses board and so on 2,000 Automobile expenses 8,000 Wife's allowance emphatically insufficient 5,000 Daughters' allowance two 6,000 Son's allowance 2,500 Self clubs, clothes, and so on 2,500 Medical attendance including dentist 1,000 Charity 1,500 Travel wife's annual spring trip to Paris 3,500 Opera, theater, music, entertaining at restaurants, and so on 3,500 Total $74,200
Further back towards the inn-yard, stablemen were putting in the horses for starting the flys and coaches to Les Ifs, the nearest railway-station. 'Suppose the Somersets should be going off by one of these conveyances, said Mrs. Goodman as she sipped her tea. 'Well, aunt, then they must, replied the younger lady with composure.
Miss Lovering has been dead two years, and we are settling the estate in behalf of the other heirs. We were trying to establish her place of residence. Never mind the body you have lost." "Doggone," said Anderson, chuckling aloud, "that was an awful good joke on 'Rast, wasn't it?" The stablemen stood around and looked at him with jaws that were drooping helplessly.
An astonishing quiet reigned in this great deserted inn, with neither manager, nor cook, nor waiters the whole staff coming only in the winter and given up for domestic needs to a local spoil-sauce, expert at a stoffato, a risotto; also to two stablemen, who clothed themselves at meal-time with the dress-coat and white tie of office.
The load had halted, not in front of the house, but at the door of the out-building with the chimney. A staff of stablemen and footmen were in readiness, who proceeded to swiftly unload and to carry the packages through the door. It was the first time that Robert had ever seen any one save the master of the house enter the laboratory.
At six came tea, and then all hands, including us stablemen, were free. Hammocks were slung about seven, and it was one of the nightly problems to secure a place. I generally found under the hatchway, where it was airy, but in rainy weather moist. Then we were free to talk and smoke on deck till any hour.
The ladies seem largely to preponderate both in number and aplomb; the men appearing, for the more part, greatly disposed to run for shelter behind the bolder petticoats; particularly the stablemen. The footmen, being more accustomed to ladies' society, are less embarrassed by their own hands, and by the exigencies of chivalry.
The hall boy had been sent down to fetch up the stablemen and chauffeur, and to rout out some of the gardeners and anyone else he could find, so that we were a decently large party, and I don't think there was an inch of ground we didn't go over, of all that lies within the policies.
Tattered Hibernians, with rags on their backs and jokes on their lips; young English chevaliers d'industrie, with their hands ready to dive into anybody's pockets but their own; stablemen out of place, servants loitering on their errands, striplings helping them, ladies'-maids with novels or three-corner'd notes, and a good crop of beggars. 'What, Spareneck, do you ride the grey to-day?
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