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And you, aged servants, humble domestics, whose hard labour no Government up to this day has taken into consideration, come hither to receive the reward of your silent virtues, and be assured that the state henceforward has its eye upon you; that it encourages you, protects you; that it will accede to your just demands, and alleviate as much as in it lies the burden of your painful sacrifices."
The meeting was over, the crowd dispersed, and now that the speeches had been read, each one fell back into his place again, and everything into the old grooves; the masters bullied the servants, and these struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns.
Behind him on the grass the servants were piling up the dirty plates, his neighbours were talking; he did not answer them; they filled his glass, and there was silence in his thoughts in spite of the growing noise.
Then Emma began to laugh, but the good lady grew angry, declaring that unless morals were to be laughed at one ought to look after those of one's servants.
'I must give up all that,' he said to himself, 'rather than let myself be brought down to feeding with the servants.
This horror of feeding with the servants was not natural to Julien; he would, in seeking his fortune, have done other things far more disagreeable.
It was a large chamber very decently furnished, but the servants were already engaged in carrying into it the beds of the three children.
Have the servants seen him?'M. de Renal asked his wife.
'A little gravity, Sir,' M. de Renal told him, 'if you wish to be respected by my children and my servants.'
The servants being still at the door, Julien felt it incumbent upon him to prolong the test.
This scene earned for Julien the title 'Sir'; the servants themselves dared not withhold it from him.
And as Madame de Renal protested at this word:'I speak, Ma'am, as the late Prince de Conde spoke, when presenting his Chamberlains to his bride: "All these people," he told her, "are our servants."
I shall say a few words to this Master Julien, and give him a hundred francs.''Ah, my dear,' said Madame de Renal trembling, 'please do not say anything in front of the servants.'
A few days later, on the eldest boy's questioning Julien as to a book advertised in the _Quotidienne_, in M. de Renal's presence:'To remove all occasion for triumph from the Jacobin Party,' said the young tutor, 'and at the same time to enable me to answer Master Adolphe, one might open a subscription at the bookshop in the name of the lowest of your servants.'
Don Juan, I. 73M. de Renal, who was visiting every room in the house, reappeared in the children's room with the servants who brought back the palliasses refilled.
M. de Renal stood still and looked at his servants.
The servants were a few feet away, and were occupied in making the beds.
The servants were not all in bed.
When he came to the cell in which the servants were waiting, he saw the mitre in their hands.
His Lordship's servants appeared, carrying a magnificent dais; M. Chelan took one of the poles, but actually it was Julien that bore it.
'Never forget, young Christian women, that you have seen one of the great Kings of the earth upon his knees before the servants of this all-powerful and terrible God.
These servants, frail, persecuted, martyred upon earth, as you can see from the still bleeding wound of Saint Clement, are triumphant in heaven.
My cook, for before the revolution I kept servants, my cook observes Friday.
They never forgive us poor servants for certain revelations ...'After these conventional phrases, which the impatient curiosity of M. Valenod found a way of cutting short, he learned the most mortifying things in the world for his own self-esteem.
At dessert, when the servants had left the room, Madame de Renal said to him very drily:'You expressed the desire to me to go and spend a fortnight at Verrieres; M. de Renal is kind enough to grant you leave.
Returning to the house he found one of M. Valenod's servants in full livery, who had been looking for him all over the town, with a note inviting him to dinner that very day.
Everyone, even the servants, wore a bold air that seemed to be fortifying them against contempt.
The servants had not failed to inform them that he was being offered two hundred francs more to educate the little Valenods.
Why does he not know how to select his servants?
And, on an order from the Bishop, the servants brought in biscuits and Malaga wine, to which Julien did honour, and even more so than abbe Frilair, who knew that his Bishop liked to see him eat cheerfully and with a good appetite.
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