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Among others, the unlucky half-pay officer of the Red Room was, much to his surprise, given the choice of relinquishing his weekly emolument or of performing the duties of an under-butler. Even the irregularities among the footmen, etc., were greatly diminished.
I was much surprised, a few days later, to hear from G., whom I met riding in the Row, that he had called every day of the week but been told by the footman that I was out. The under-butler, who was devoted to me, said sadly, when I complained: "I am afraid, miss, your young gentleman has been forbidden the house." Forbidden the house!
Marson, if a housemaid or a scullery maid tried to get into the steward's room and have her meals with us, she would be " "Rebuked by the butler?" "Lynched, I should think. Kitchen maids and scullery maids eat in the kitchen. Chauffeurs, footmen, under-butler, pantry boys, hall boy, odd man and steward's-room footman take their meals in the servants' hall, waited on by the hall boy.
Thus a mansion in Belgrave Square ought to mean a corpulent hall-porter, a couple of gigantic footmen, a butler and an under-butler at the very least, if the owner professes to live op to his social dignities. If our house is in Baker or Wimpole street, we must certainly have a manservant in sombre raiment to open our door, with a hobbledehoy or a buttons to run his superior's messages.
He had come for the jewels; but the lady had the presence of mind to say aloud, as if to herself, that she had forgotten something, slipped out of the room, locked the door, called up the servants, and the thief who was no less a person than the under-butler was nabbed." "And the French 'oman sleeps 'ere?" said Beck, musingly. "French 'oman!
Economize labour, cries Lord Derby, the cool-headed mentor of the rich; we must give up our second under-butler. When the labourer is dependent, and his wages are low, the most precious of commodities, that commodity the husbanding of which is the chief condition of increased production, and of the growth of national wealth, is squandered with reckless prodigality.
One picked him up another his hat-crown a third his whip a fourth his gloves while Margaret, the housemaid, rushed to the rescue with her private bottle of sal volatile and John, the under-butler, began to extricate him from the new-fashioned neckcloth he had made of his hat.
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