Word: servant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first attempt was a failure: the servant said he was taking a nap and could not be disturbed on any account. The second time, however, I was more fortunate: he was in, and I was ushered into his presence, feeling somewhat shaky about the knees, I must confess. He proved to be a fine-looking, gray-haired man of about sixty, I should judge, who soon set me quite at my ease by talking English to me, and very good English too. I learned from him that all I had to do was to prove myself a foreigner, which...
...sharp, I was outside the Senate-chamber door, armed with my passport and ready for business. Around me was a crowd of German youths, all loaded down with voluminous documents and looking excessively anxious. After an embarrassing delay we were admitted, but found no one there except the servant who had opened the door and who took our cards as we came in. After we had all entered he came round and gathered up our papers, with which he vanished through a small door in the wall. Another delay ensued, during which I amused myself by studying the frescos...
...gray-bearded servant of Zeus, as accomplished in speaking as kicking...
...probably the fair one for whom I was searching. I followed, and was led to a little room in the top of the house. On entering, I saw at a glance it was a domestic's room. My disappointment was keen. The lady explained that one of her servants had been suddenly taken ill, and, as her family physician was out of town, she had called me. I felt of the servant's pulse, and counted 323 beats per minute. Then, taking from my pocket a little vial of homoeopathic pills which I chanced to have, I dissolved...
...latter room we did our cooking. I had purchased a gas-stove in San Francisco. This room had two windows, and between was a place just large enough for my Chickering grand, - a pleasant surprise from papa upon our arrival. We had no neighbors within twelve miles. Our one servant was a converted Indian. Instead of scalping after the ordinary manner of his tribe, he was content to appropriate to his own use small articles of value, and carry them to the nearest village in exchange for alcoholic fluid. He was a Christianized Indian. But let me proceed to other...