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'I am going to draw up the ladder,' he said, 'so that it may not compromise us if one of the servants, awakened by the noise, goes the rounds.''Ah!Leave me, leave me rather,' the answer came with unfeigned anger.
'I think even your
servants
laugh at him.
Round the table, which the
servants
had just brought in already laid, were seated seven or eight ladies, extremely noble, extremely religious, extremely affected, between thirty and thirty-five years of age.
She deigned to take an interest in everything as soon as her
servants
announced the Baron de La Joumate.
'I dismiss that rascal,' he said to his servants; 'someone else must drive.'
'What are we but a pair of
servants
engaged in slandering our employers?' he thought.
'The
servants
chatter among themselves of the marked preference that is shown me; I know it, I have heard them . . .
He had seen himself seized by servants, garrotted, carried down to a cellar with a gag in his mouth.
He looked at all the
servants
in full livery.
He prowled round the house to see what was afoot everywhere, especially on the fourth floor, where the
servants
slept.
One of Madame de La Mole's maids was giving a party, the
servants
were merrily imbibing punch.
'If their plan is to avoid the notice of the
servants
of the house, they will make the men they have hired to seize me come in over the garden wall.
It will be a question of taking in everyone round him; for among his secretaries, among his servants, there are men in the pay of our enemies, who lie in wait for our agents to intercept them.
When the servants, who were half asleep, had finished changing the candles:'Let us now begin to deliberate, Gentlemen,' said the chairman, 'and no longer attempt to persuade one another.
The frailties and well-merited sufferings of a thoroughly criminal heart are, they say, described in it with a truth that is almost profound; which did not prevent your Bonaparte from declaring on Saint Helena that it was a novel written for servants.'
Her old porter noticed that, when he brought her a letter from that handsome young man, who wore such a melancholy air, he was certain to see vanish the distracted and irritated expression which the Marechale always took care to assume when any of her
servants
entered the room.
And repulsed by whom?' added a pride mad with suffering, 'by one of my father's
servants.
It was Julien who showed prudence; and it was only when there was any question of danger that she did not comply with his wishes; but, submissive, and almost humble towards him, she showed all the more arrogance towards anyone else who came near her in the house, relatives and
servants
alike.
His horses, his uniforms, the liveries of his
servants
were kept up with a nicety which would have done credit to the punctiliousness of a great English nobleman.
You swear, by the love that you bear me, not to attempt your life by any direct means, or indirect means ...Remember,' he added, 'that you are compelled to live for my son, whom Mathilde will abandon to the care of
servants
as soon as she is Marquise de Croisenois.''I swear,' she replied coldly, 'but I mean to take away with me your appeal written and signed by your hand.
This organisation even maintains a high-level judiciary along with its train of countless servants, scribes, policemen and all the other assistance that it needs, perhaps even executioners and torturers - I'm not afraid of using those words.
So civil
servants
like this are not able to learn the things you can learn from studying the successive stages that individual trials go through, the final verdict or the reasons for it.
But it was still suspicious how he continually mentioned his personal contacts with the civil
servants.
They soon came across a servant of the court - K. was now able to recognise all the
servants
of the court from the gold buttons they wore on their civilian clothes below the normal buttons - and the painter instructed him to go with K. carrying the pictures.
How they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and that they do not care three ha'pence for; with expensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretence and ostentation, and with - oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all! - the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminal's iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it!
Nor, continued the wary spinster in her cogitations, does Washington; paper and promises were all that the leader of the American troops could dispense to his
servants.
His meditations were, however, soon interrupted by the appearance of the washerwoman, who came staggering through the door that communicated with the kitchen, muttering execrations against the
servants
of the officers, who, by their waggery, had disturbed her slumbers before the fire.
"God spares the lives of His
servants
to His own time," said the peddler, solemnly.
you
servants
of King George," shouted the leader, presenting his musket to the breast of Sitgreaves, "or I will let a little tory blood from your veins."
"What! did you feel that God Himself had forgotten you, Harvey?""God never forsakes His servants," returned Birch, with reverence, and exhibiting naturally a devotion that hitherto he had only assumed.
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