Word: servant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Alfred Dawdle, a young gentleman of generous impulses but slender means. L. Anderson Rattles, his servant. L. Honore A. Marlin Spike, a pirate chief. W. H. Rand, Jr. Tom Noddy, landlord of "The Shorn Lamb" and a pirate in good standing. L. H. Morgan Peter Boggs, a rich and ambitious father...
...approaching marriage of Constance to a rich but aged baronet, who has been selected by Boggs, the girl's father, as a suitable husband for his child, though much against her will. Alfred Dawdle, young, handsome and charming, but poor, makes his appearance, accompanied by his facetious but faithful servant, Rattles. Dawdle offers to elope with Constance, who consents after a becoming show of maidenly hesitation. But their designs are unfortunately frustrated by the pirate chief, A. Marlin Spike, who with his lieutenant, Tom Noddy-disguised as the landlord of the Shorn Lamb-carries off Constance in the dead...
...West. These deductions bring the estimate down to about $500, the limit for necessary expenses set in President Eliot's last report, where he comments upon Professor Palmer's speech. Under the next column, "Economical," occur some remarkable items, the most noticeable of which is perhaps $25 for a servant. It can hardly be called economical for a man of limited means to pay his janitor $25 for blacking boots and tending the fire. With a few exceptions the estimates for an economical man should be about what are given under the column "Least without assistance," but some of these...
...service was opened by the spirited rendering by the choir of the anthem, "O be joyful in the Lord.' After the introductory exercises, the preacher announced his text as follows: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it." The thought upon which the preacher dwelt...
...serenade them. T ??? were the days of chivalry, and ??? players were amply rewarded by the rustling of a blind or the raising of a sash. Not infrequently the Sodality serenaded the wrong house, as when they uttered their sweet music to the attentive ears of Judge X's servant-maids while his fair daughters were at Judge Y's dance...