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Arriving at the number in Queen Square to which he had been directed, he left off whistling and gave a cheerful knock, which was instantaneously answered by a powdered-headed footman in gorgeous livery, and of symmetrical stature.
'is this here Mr. Bantam's, old feller?' inquired Sam Weller, nothing abashed by the blaze of splendour which burst upon his sight in the person of the powdered-headed footman with the gorgeous livery.
'Why, young man?' was the haughty inquiry of the powdered- headed footman.
The powdered-headed footman slammed the door very hard, and scowled very grandly; but both the slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam, who was regarding a mahogany umbrella-stand with every outward token of critical approval.
Apparently his master's reception of the card had impressed the powdered-headed footman in Sam's favour, for when he came back from delivering it, he smiled in a friendly manner, and said that the answer would be ready directly.
I've had my dinner.''You dine early, sir,' said the powdered-headed footman.
'Have you been long in Bath, sir?' inquired the powdered- headed footman.
'Nice place, Sir,' said the powdered-headed footman.
'Pleasant society, sir,' remarked the powdered-headed footman.
'Affable, unaffected, say-nothin'-to-nobody sorts o' fellers.''Oh, very much so, indeed, sir,' said the powdered-headed footman, taking Sam's remarks as a high compliment.
Do you do anything in this way, Sir?' inquired the tall footman, producing a small snuff-box with a fox's head on the top of it.
'Why, it IS difficult, sir, I confess,' said the tall footman.
It looks very like rappee, sir.'Here, a sharp peal at the bell reduced the powdered-headed footman to the ignominious necessity of putting the fox's head in his pocket, and hastening with a humble countenance to Mr. Bantam's 'study.'
'There is the answer, sir,' said the powdered-headed footman.
'I hope we shall meet again, Sir,' said the powdered-headed footman, rubbing his hands, and following Sam out to the door-step.
'A very singular young man that,' said the powdered-headed footman, looking after Mr. Weller, with a countenance which clearly showed he could make nothing of him.
'Don't stop to ask questions, cast-iron head,' replied the long man, with great disgust, taking it for granted that the inquirer was a footman; 'but open the door.''Come, look sharp, timber eyelids,' added the other encouragingly.
The man in blue being a light-haired, stiff-necked, free and easy sort of footman, with a swaggering air and pert face, had attracted Mr. Weller's special attention at first, but when he began to come out in this way, Sam felt more than ever disposed to cultivate his acquaintance; so he launched himself into the conversation at once, with characteristic independence.
'Hows'ever,' said Sam, putting the letter in his pocket with a gentle sigh, 'it wos to be--and wos, as the old lady said arter she'd married the footman.
It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman.
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.
"Has no letter been left here for me since we went out?" said she to the footman who then entered with the parcels.
"And that running footman who waited at the door, and that carriage with a coachman in grand livery who sat waiting on his seat?"
Porthos had seen neither the footman nor the carriage, but with the eye of a jealous woman, Mme.
Finally, a footman opened a door, and we found ourselves in the Prince's own private apartment.
Turn him out, footman!
Take him away!""If I don't get it by Monday, I shall be in your papa's Bench," wailed the little man, and as the footman led him out we could hear him, amidst shouts of laughter, still protesting that he would wind up in "papa's Bench."
But straightway they all plunged into politics, varied by the drinking of sweet maraschino, which a footman brought round upon a salver.
A little way down the room I saw the black face and woolly head of Bill Richmond, in a purple-and-gold footman's livery--destined to be the predecessor of Molineaux, Sutton, and all that line of black boxers who have shown that the muscular power and insensibility to pain which distinguish the African give him a peculiar advantage in the sports of the ring.
A footman answered our knock, and we were ushered into a large drawing-room with sombre furniture and melancholy curtains.
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