Word: valete
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Mocha, versatile valet to the Grand
...number is a weak thing to our minds. The dialogue is decidedly reminiscent, in fact, it is simply a rehash of trashy plays and novels of English life. The hero poses as another Beau Brummel and talks of shopkeepers 'who ought to feel proud of his patronage. The good valet who pays his master's debts out of his savings, and the goodness of his heart, him we have met before. And the sketch is not improved by its tame tragic ending...
...most ambitions pieces of prose in this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned...
...Ames and Mr. Howard were excellent as young Parisians. Mr. Jones was especially good as the false naval captain, and Mr. Davis made an acceptable valet...
Protestarer quoque contra vanitatem horum Yankeorum in comparando suam Universitatem cum nostra, sed non valet tempus, et tuum spatium est preciosum. Ergo dicam nullum plus, sed subscribo meipsum. Tuum obedientem Servum...