Steward
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All that day, when talking to the
steward
and the peasants and at home with his wife, Dolly, her children, and his father-in-law, Levin's thoughts were busy with the one and only subject, outside his farming, that interested him at this time, and in everything he sought its relation to his questions: 'What am I?
The fortune began with Félicien, who was able to realize a dream with which his grandfather, the old steward, had nursed his childhood--the purchase of dismembered Piolaine, which he acquired as national property for a ludicrous sum.
A
steward
entered.
Meanwhile our silent steward, perhaps a deaf-mute, set the table and laid three place settings.
But, taking advantage of our slumber, the
steward
had cleared the table.
"But dinner or breakfast, that
steward
will be plenty welcome whether he brings the one or the other."
Meanwhile the hours passed, our hunger nagged unmercifully, and this time the
steward
did not appear.
The locks were turned, the door opened, the
steward
appeared.
The
steward
was choking in the grip of those powerful hands.
Nearly strangled, the
steward
staggered out at a signal from his superior; but such was the commander's authority aboard his vessel, not one gesture gave away the resentment that this man must have felt toward the Canadian.
A
steward
appeared.
After supper was served me by the mute and emotionless steward, I fell asleep; but not without some anxieties.
Of the other men on board, I saw only my emotionless steward, who served me with his usual mute efficiency.
The next day at four o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the
steward
whom Captain Nemo had placed expressly at my service.
At dinner the same day, my
steward
served me some slices of this flesh, skillfully dressed by the ship's cook.
The
steward
sent to Tostes to pay for the operation reported in the evening that he had seen some superb cherries in the doctor's little garden.
There he found M. de La Mole's
steward.
He gave the
steward
an appointment, in three days' time.
FAUBLASAfter many months of trial, this is the stage that Julien had reached on the day when the
steward
of the household paid him his third quarter's salary.
The Marquis, with the bored expression of the Marquis de Moncade, listening to M. Poisson, his steward, reading his accounts, wrote out his instructions.
Another fellow I knew went for a week's voyage round the coast, and, before they started, the
steward
came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or arrange beforehand for the whole series.
The
steward
recommended the latter course, as it would come so much cheaper.
A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the
steward
came up with an oily smile, and said:"What can I get you, sir?""Get me out of this," was the feeble reply.
At last, says he, 'Why do you not get a head steward, madam, that may take you and your money together into keeping, and then you would have the trouble taken off your hands?''Ay, sir, and the money too, it may be,' said I; 'for truly I find the hazard that way is as much as 'tis t'other way'; but I remember I said secretly to myself, 'I wish you would ask me the question fairly, I would consider very seriously on it before I said No.'He went on a good way with me, and I thought once or twice he was in earnest, but to my real affliction, I found at last he had a wife; but when he owned he had a wife he shook his head, and said with some concern, that indeed he had a wife, and no wife.
This plantation, though remote from him, he said he did not let out, but managed it by a head-clerk (steward), as he did another that was his father's, that lay hard by it, and went over himself three or four times a year to look after it.
The
steward
thought he had run away: opened the door, and put a bill up.
She fell into violent hysterics immediately, with such screams as reached your brother's ears, as he was sitting in his own dressing-room down stairs, thinking about writing a letter to his
steward
in the country.
Your sister has been talking to me about him, and asking me a thousand questions; and I find that the young man quite forgot to tell you, among his other communication, that he was the son of old Wickham, the late Mr. Darcy's
steward.
"His guilt and his descent appear by your account to be the same," said Elizabeth angrily; "for I have heard you accuse him of nothing worse than of being the son of Mr. Darcy's steward, and of _that_, I can assure you, he informed me himself."
The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
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