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Updated: June 4, 2025
I thought they never did any thing but wear magnificent crowns and red velvet dressing-gowns with dabs of wool sewed on them in spots, and sit on thrones and scowl at the flunkies and the people in the parquette, and order Dukes and Duchesses off to execution.
No one would make plush breeches when there were no flunkies to wear them, nor would anybody waste his time over making oleomargarine when no one was COMPELLED to abstain from real butter. Adulteration laws are only needed in a society of thieves and in such a society they are a dead letter.
No, I saw her as the missionary of a strange thing, crossing oceans, daring thirst and gale and teeth of sharks, harrying deeper and deeper into the outseas of mystery that small, devoted, polyandrous company of husbands, at once her paddlers, cooks, flunkies, watchdogs, music makers. "Queen Daughter!"
Even the butlers, footmen, and other flunkies were superior people, and I envied them, not only the uniform of their servitude but their intimate touch with that inner world of beautiful things. I spent one winter at the big house, and then the shame of my ignorance drove me forever from the haunts of my childhood.
John," he called to the Englishman of the crew, "how many men do you' country tramp steamers carry?" John computed mentally, then muttered: "Two mates, six ash-cats, two flunkies, two quartermasters, watchman, deck-hands oh, 'bout sixteen or seventeen, Martin." Ash-cats: engineers and firemen. "Boys, le' 's man de win'lass.
Its reflex action on the masters themselves is noxious; it is mischievous to the flunkies who are maintained in idleness, and in enervating and demoralizing luxury; it is pernicious to the community at large, and especially to the middle and upper middle classes, whose inevitable expenditure in procuring fit domestic service already burdensomely great is thereby oppressively enhanced, till it has become difficult not only to find good household servants at moderate wages, but to find servants who will work diligently and faithfully for any wages at all."
Together Nikky and Prince Ferdinand William Otto went out and down the great marble staircase. Sentries saluted. Two flunkies in scarlet and gold threw open the doors. A stray dog that had wandered into the courtyard watched them gravely. "I wish," said Prince Ferdinand William Otto, "that I might have a dog." "A dog! Why?" "Well, it would be company. Dogs are very friendly.
"Oh, of course, I don't admire that spirit or lack of it," he replied. "But what are you going to do? It's the flunkies or the Barbaras and Marys or doing our own work." To Hiram Ranger that seemed unanswerable, and his resentment against his son for expressing ideas for which he had utter contempt seemed unreasonable.
Up and down the wide alleys behind the benches hurried flunkies bearing huge tin pots of steaming coffee, and the incessant returning of thick cups to their saucers was like the rattle of musketry. But the thing that impressed the half-famished Bill was the profusion of food; never in his life, he thought, had he beheld so tempting an array of things to eat.
HE'S not here collecting eggs. He's a palace at home, and powdered flunkies; and if he don't stay there, you bet he knows the reason why! Follow? 'O yes, I 'ear you, said Huish. 'He's been doing good business here, then, continued the captain. 'For ten years, he's been doing a great business.
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