Servant in sentence

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"Can I see the doctor?" he asked Justin, who was talking on the doorsteps with Felicite, and, taking him for a servant of the house—"Tell him that Monsieur Rodolphe Boulanger of La Huchette is here."

The servant had been to fetch him in the tumult.

Monsieur Boulanger, however, dismissed his servant, advising him to calm himself, since his fancy was over.

We shall always be having the brat on our hands, and the servant, the neighbours, and husband, all sorts of worries.

Then the landlady began telling him the story that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, and although she detested Tellier, she blamed Lheureux.

"Your servant, madame," he replied drily; and he went back into his tub.

Emma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.

The servant was holding her by her skirt.

How I love you!"Then noticing that the tips of her ears were rather dirty, she rang at once for warm water, and washed her, changed her linen, her stockings, her shoes, asked a thousand questions about her health, as if on the return from a long journey, and finally, kissing her again and crying a little, she gave her back to the servant, who stood quite thunderstricken at this excess of tenderness.

They were in bed when Monsieur Homais, in spite of the servant, suddenly entered the room, holding in his hand a sheet of paper just written.

The servant had to be constantly washing linen, and all day Felicite did not stir from the kitchen, where little Justin, who often kept her company, watched her at work.

She was six years older than he, and Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, was beginning to pay court to her."Let me alone," she said, moving her pot of starch.

"How afraid you are of spoiling them!" said the servant, who wasn't so particular when she cleaned them herself, because as soon as the stuff of the boots was no longer fresh madame handed them over to her.

Emma was much embarrassed; all the drawers of the writing-table were empty; they owed over a fortnight's wages to Lestiboudois, two quarters to the servant, for any quantity of other things, and Bovary was impatiently expecting Monsieur Derozeray's account, which he was in the habit of paying every year about Midsummer.

She was thinking how to get out of this when the servant coming in put on the mantelpiece a small roll of blue paper "from Monsieur Derozeray's."

I am your servant, your concubine!

Monsieur Langlois told me—"He stopped for propriety's sake because the servant came in.

Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible.

She stayed in bed taking little meals, rang for the servant to inquire about her gruel or to chat with her.

One evening, for example, she was angry with the servant, who had asked to go out, and stammered as she tried to find some pretext.

But from that moment she listened no more; and the chorus of the guests, the scene between Ashton and his servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for her as far off as if the instruments had grown less sonorous and the characters more remote.

"The gentleman isn't in," answered a servant.

Hivert pulled in his horses and, the servant, climbing up to the window, said mysteriously—"Madame, you must go at once to Monsieur Homais.

She excused the servant.

"At Madame Bovary's, you're not making love to—""To whom?""The servant!"

Then tears obscured them, her red eyelids were lowered, she gave him her hands, and Leon was pressing them to his lips when a servant appeared to tell the gentleman that he was wanted.

She sent her servant for him.

But Lheureux, all the same, went on with his work, helped by a young girl of about thirteen, somewhat hunch-backed, who was at once his clerk and his servant.

"Call the servant," said Charles.

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