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Fontaine is too beautiful, too dignified & too quiet to be a ditzy blonde, no matter how aristocratic, while young footman Albert (Watson) is painfully awful.
Mr. Mullan was melodramatic in his role of an ambitious footman, and to make him the "romantic" lead in the process was just hysterical!
The plot outline says it all: A footman seduces a count 's daughter.
Is he a Prince?''And is that her sister in white satin?...Now hear how the deacon will roar, "Wives, obey your husbands"!''Is it the Chudovsky Choir?''No, the Synod's.''I asked the footman.
He is the son of a head footman, I think, and has had no education.
She would have ready in her hand some money to give to the hall-porter and the footman, in order that they should let her in.
'One of the springs broke yesterday,' replied the footman.
'What does that mean?' wondered Levin when the footman ran out of the house and stopped the vehicle.
Well, let's go in,' said Anna, who had given her favourite horse the sugar the footman had brought.
He was sitting on a chair, and the footman was pulling off his warm boots.
When he had changed the first hundred-rouble note to buy liveries for the footman and hall porter, he had involuntarily calculated that those useless liveries – which, however, were absolutely necessary, judging by the surprise of the old Princess and Kitty at his hint that one could do without liveries – would cost as much as the hire of two labourers for the summer months, that is, of one for about three hundred working days between Easter and Advent – and each a day of heavy labour from early morning till late in the evening.
Let's go!...Find out whether my carriage has come,' said Oblonsky to a footman.
Levin went to the table, paid the forty roubles he had lost betting on the aces, paid the club bill to an old footman who stood by the door and who seemed in some miraculous way to know what it came to, and, swinging his arms in a peculiar way, passed through the whole suite of rooms to the exit.
On the top landing a footman bowed to Oblonsky as to some one he knew well, and Oblonsky, asking who was with Anna Arkadyevna, received the answer that it was Mr. Vorkuyev.
CHAPTER XIVTHE DOCTOR WAS NOT YET UP, and his footman said he had gone to bed late and given orders that he was not to be called, but the footman added that he would be up soon.
Having learnt that the doctor was not up yet, Levin, out of the many plans that occurred to him, decided on the following: Kuzma should go with a note to another doctor, while he himself would go to the chemist for the opium; and if the doctor was not up when he returned he would bribe the footman – or if that was impossible, he would enter by force and wake the doctor at all costs.
At the chemist's a skinny dispenser, with the same indifference with which the footman had cleaned his lamp-glasses, closed with a wafer a packet of powders for which a coachman was waiting, and refused to let Levin have any opium.
The doctor was not up yet, and the footman, now busy putting down a carpet, refused to wake him.
The footman consented and went upstairs, asking Levin to step into the waiting-room.
Won't you have some tea?' she said, indicating with her eyes the footman who was handing tea round on a tray.
'I have noticed...' she began, when a footman entered with a note.
Sin does not exist for a believer; sin has already been atoned for...Excuse me!' she added, glancing at the footman who entered with another note.
But you will see...' she was about to begin reading when the footman came in again.
You see?]Hush!' she said to the footman, who came in again.
As she passed through the drawing-room she heard a vehicle stop at the front door, and, looking out of the window, she saw a young girl in a lilac hat leaning out of the carriage window and giving an order to the footman who was ringing at the front door.
'Catherine Alexandrovna Levina,' answered the footman.
CHAPTER IIHARDLY HAD KOZNYSHEV AND KATAVASOV REACHED the station, got out of their carriage, and looked for the footman who had followed with their luggage, before some Volunteers drove up with four izvoshchiks.
At eleven o'clock the Grégoires arrived, and were astonished when Hippolyte, the footman, who was placed as sentinel, hustled them in after an anxious glance at the two ends of the road.
Three-quarters of an hour passed and they were about to seat themselves at table when the footman announced M. Deneulin.
The housemaid, who was helping the footman, treated this as an order and went and closed one of the curtains.
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