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When they had already quitted the table and had all begun smoking, Vronsky's valet came up to him with a letter on a salver.
'It is extraordinary how much he resembles the Public Prosecutor Sventitsky,' remarked one of the guests in French of the valet, while Vronsky, frowning, read his letter.
Vronsky's valet came in to fetch a receipt for a telegram from Petersburg.
What secret can Steve have from me?'Vronsky called back the valet and told him to bring the telegram.
It was his valet, who had come for the gloves his master had forgotten.
On this day the coachman was driving his wife; Rose, the new housemaid, had leave to go out till five o'clock; there only remained Hippolyte, the valet de chambre, trailing about the rooms in slippers, and the cook, who had been occupied since dawn in struggling with her saucepans, entirely absorbed in the dinner which was to be given in the evening.
'My husband will not be joining us again,' Madame de Renal went on: 'he will be busy with the gardener and his valet changing the straw in all the palliasses in the house.
Madame Derville allowed them to move away from her.'Save my life,' said Julien to Madame de Renal, 'you alone can do it; for you know that the valet hates me like poison.
She could hear her husband talking to the valet, actually in Julien's room.
One day, Madame de Renal had given an order to her husband's valet, Julien's enemy.
The abbe Pirard had nevertheless made a great concession to his party; he had engaged a valet, and was quite well dressed.
'If he were to take his pen to prescribe my conduct, what would he write?'Julien was sharply interrupted by M. de La Mole's old valet.
The valet added in an undertone as they were side by side: 'He is furious, beware.'
I beg Monsieur le Marquis to accept, with my expression of a gratitude that knows no bounds, my apologies for the trouble which my death in his house may cause_.''Will Monsieur le Marquis deign to peruse this paper ...Kill me,' said Julien, 'or have me killed by your valet.
'I understand,' thought Julien; 'he would not be sorry to see me spare his valet the responsibility for my death ...Let him kill me, well and good, it is a satisfaction that I am offering him ...But, by Jove, I am in love with life ...I owe myself to my child.'
Third in the line was to be seen the valet of Colonel Wellmere, who carried in either hand chickens fricasseed and oyster patties.
If he happened occasionally to neglect the tiresome job, he apologised with the humility of a valet the following day.
'Well, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, as his valet appeared at his bedroom door, just as he was concluding his toilet; 'all alive to-day, I suppose?''Reg'lar game, sir,' replied Mr. Weller; 'our people's a-collecting down at the Town Arms, and they're a-hollering themselves hoarse already.''Ah,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'do they seem devoted to their party, Sam?''Never see such dewotion in my life, Sir.''Energetic, eh?' said Mr. Pickwick.
'Yes, they were,' replied the bagman; 'very nice men indeed!'CHAPTER XV IN WHICH IS GIVEN A FAITHFUL PORTRAITURE OF TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS; AND AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF A PUBLIC BREAKFAST IN THEIR HOUSE AND GROUNDS: WHICH PUBLIC BREAKFAST LEADS TO THE RECOGNITION OF AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANOTHER CHAPTERMr. Pickwick's conscience had been somewhat reproaching him for his recent neglect of his friends at the Peacock; and he was just on the point of walking forth in quest of them, on the third morning after the election had terminated, when his faithful valet put into his hand a card, on which was engraved the following inscription:--Mrs. Leo HunterTHE DEN.
On the third, being able to sit up in his bedchamber, he despatched his valet with a message to Mr. Wardle and Mr. Trundle, intimating that if they would take their wine there, that evening, they would greatly oblige him.
Mr. Pickwick observed his valet's directions implicitly, and bidding Sam follow him, entered the tavern he had pointed out, where the hot brandy-and-water was speedily placed before him; while Mr. Weller, seated at a respectful distance, though at the same table with his master, was accommodated with a pint of porter.
He raised himself in bed, and extended his hand, as if he were about to say something more; but suddenly checking himself, turned round, and bade his valet 'Good-night.'
I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of his cast-off shoes.
"In all probability he has," replied the valet, "for I saw the horses harnessed to his Eminence’s carriage this morning, and when I asked where he was going, they told me, ’To St. Germain.’"
"La Chesnaye!"Louis XIII’s confidential valet, who never left the door, entered in reply to the call.
Athos, on his part, had a valet whom he had trained in his service in a thoroughly peculiar fashion, and who was named Grimaud.
Let us pass, then, from the valet of Athos to the valet of Porthos, from Grimaud to Mousqueton.
Planchet, d’Artagnan’s valet, supported his good fortune nobly.
"This is all very easy for you to say," replied d’Artagnan, "for you, Athos, who live like a dumb man with Grimaud, who forbid him to speak, and consequently never exchange ill words with him; for you, Porthos, who carry matters in such a magnificent style, and are a god to your valet, Mousqueton; and for you, Aramis, who, always abstracted by your theological studies, inspire your servant, Bazin, a mild, religious man, with a profound respect; but for me, who am without any settled means and without resources--for me, who am neither a Musketeer nor even a Guardsman, what I am to do to inspire either the affection, the terror, or the respect in Planchet?"
"She is goddaughter to Laporte, the confidential valet of the queen.
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