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    footman


    1. About seven years ago, that sum was in the same place the ordinary yearly wages of a common footman


    2. The weary footman pays no attention


    3. The weary footman takes the reins and weeps


    4. Still dressed in simple, informal dresses, the Queen and the Princess got in the big car, with a royal footman opening the rear left door for them


    5. The footman then joined the driver on the front bench seat as the Queen gave a terse order


    6. She waited until half a dozen policemen had rushed in to somewhat control the crowd of reporters, then stepped out of the car after the footman had opened her door


    7. Suppose you do not, in the end, have a footman to open your door--the footman is merely a symbol, conveniently expressing the multitude of superfluities that gather about the declining years of the person who has got on, things bought with the sacrifice of his life, and none of them giving him back the lost power, gone with youth, to enjoy them--suppose, then, you do not end gloriously with a footman, what of that? I must be blind, for I never can see the desirability of these trappings


    8. The footman, the butler, and Miss Cartwright looked at each other


    9. "Peculiar, I call it," said the footman, thinking to curry favour with the butler


    10. "Oh, _now_ they're for it!" Miss Cartwright exulted, flying to the bell and ringing it so violently that a footman actually came running

    11. Exulting and excited, she flew to the bell, and could hardly hide her triumph when she told the footman to send her the two chief sinners


    12. Where is she?" And throwing his hat to the footman, which the young man, having been till recently a prominent member of his village eleven, deftly caught, he gave a pull to his waistcoat, a twitch to his tie, wriggled his neck more comfortably into his collar, rubbed his hands, and was ready for anything


    13. Kinder, now, to usher him out before his feelings got hurt, decided Soames; who accordingly began making movements in the direction of the outer hall, signing, at the same time, to the footman


    14. "Well, sir, I can't say--" Soames was beginning, when the footman, who was new, who was still truthful, who was kindly, and also who wanted to save his chief from unnecessary running about, supposing it had slipped his memory stepped forward and timidly reminded him that they both had seen her ladyship going into the secretary's office a short time ago; and before Soames had even begun to glare at the officious young man Edward was off, straight as a dart down the right passage, and making unerringly for the right door


    15. Ingram had found a room in the village inn at Kökensee, a place so sordid, so entirely impossible as the next habitation after theirs for one who had been their guest, that the Baron and Baroness were concerned for what their servants must think when they heard him direct their coachman in the presence of their butler and footman, as he clambered nimbly into the dogcart, to take him to it


    16. Dawson, and that he"--the footman coughed slightly--"he don't want to see any more of him, my lady


    17. At the door, it is true, he had been stirred to petulance by the foolish face and utterances of the footman James, but during the whole of the time he had been alone with Lady Shuttleworth he had behaved, he considered, with the utmost restraint and tact


    18. Fritzing, polite man, hastened to meet her, pushing aside the footman and offering his arm


    19. A footman came into the room and bowed before the table


    20. He had watched from the woods as a gatekeeper had carried Petra to the manor, as a young footman received her into his arms, as young Falstaff had directed the staff and a parade of candlelight had made its way to a window in the northwest corner

    21. The footman re-entered carrying a tea tray stacked with tea things and a plate of butter biscuits, freshly baked going by their delicious smell


    22. He sat in the chair opposite and leaned forward as the footman poured the tea


    23. When the footman left I hazarded a glance at Jacob


    24. No one enters during the day without Greggs the footman letting them in and the house is locked up at night


    25. "A footman on his night off


    26. "The footman died in a better part of town


    27. "The house where the footman worked was burgled soon after his death


    28. The footman showed me into the Culvert's drawing room where George met me a few minutes later


    29. He said he had no idea who he was and to make sure Forbes had at least one footman on hand whenever he answered the door


    30. It says the police think the footman was mauled to death by a stray dog

    31. "Another footman," Jacob said


    32. "Fool!" Lord Preston shouted at the hapless footman


    33. "I was told too about some footman of yours in the country whom you treated badly


    34. "Was that the footman who came to you after death to fill your pipe?


    35. Long ago great people lived here, and coming back from Court past midnight stood, huddling their satin skirts, under the carved door-posts while the footman roused himself from his mattress on the floor, hurriedly fastened the lower buttons of his waistcoat, and let them in


    36. Elinor thought she could distinguish a large W in the direction; and no sooner was it complete than Marianne, ringing the bell, requested the footman who answered it to get that letter conveyed for her to the two-penny post


    37. "Has no letter been left here for me since we went out?" said she to the footman who then entered with the parcels


    38. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity! He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Let us settle it at once: will you stay here, and am I to fight my way to Catherine over Linton and his footman? Or will you be my friend, as you have been hitherto, and do what I request? Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!"


    39. At half-past one they descended, the coachman and footman had put on their livery over their disguises, which gave them a more ridiculous appearance than ever, and which gained them the applause of Franz and Albert


    40. " The count rang, and a footman appeared

    41. As soon as he appeared in the Count of Morcerf's ante-chamber, a footman, the same who at Rome had brought the count's card to the two young men, and announced his visit, sprang into the vestibule, and when he arrived at the door the illustrious traveller found his carriage awaiting him


    42. " The footman obeyed his orders


    43. " Monte Cristo gave his hat, cane, and gloves to the same French footman who had called his carriage at the Count of Morcerf's, and then he passed into the small salon, preceded by Bertuccio, who showed him the way


    44. The carriage stopped, the footman sprang off the box, and opened the door


    45. "It is your new master, my good fellow," said the footman


    46. familiar with the house, entered first into the court, threw his bridle into the hands of a footman, and returned to the door to receive Madame Danglars, to whom he offered his arm, to conduct her to her apartments


    47. It was, however, too late; Albert had followed the footman, and, hearing the order given, forced the door open, and followed by Beauchamp found himself in the banker's study


    48. Some of the apartments were closed within and without; the shutters were only opened to admit a minute's air, showing the scared face of a footman, and immediately afterwards the window would be closed, like a gravestone falling on a sepulchre, and the neighbors would say to each other in a low voice, "Will there be another funeral to-day at the procureur's house?" Madame Danglars involuntarily shuddered at the desolate aspect of the mansion; descending from the cab, she approached the door with trembling knees, and rang the bell


    49. It is that you ring for the footman


    50. I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a







































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