Reuben Butler was the grandson of a trooper in Monk's army, and had been brought up by a grandmother, a widow, a cotter who struggled with poverty and the hard and sterile soil on the land of the Laird of Dumbiedikes.

Butler is a friend of Boone's, and he has given me authority to summon all the troops within reach to my aid.

The butler who had been left behind in charge of Riversbrook was a man named Hill, but he was not in the house on the night of the tragedy.

The butler's was a common enough case.

He wrote his friend Schober in 1818 of the Esterházy visit: "The cook is a pleasant fellow; the housemaid is very pretty and often pays me a visit; the butler is my rival.

" Next morning this worthy butler, who for seven years had been a very good servant, and for the next seven years rather a bad one, and would now have been a hard master if the Colonel had not been too great a Tartar to stand it, appeared before his superior with an air slightly respectful, slightly aggressive, and very dogged.

"I thought," he said, at last "I thought that Jack Butler was a favourite of hers?" "Jack Butler!" said the girl, in tones of scornful surprise.

His butler was a Javanese, his chef a Quan-tung Chinese, his valet a Japanese, his chambermaid a Martinique negress, and his chauffeur an American expert.

His butler was a Javanese, his chef a Quan-tung Chinese, his valet a Japanese, his chambermaid a Martinique negress, and his chauffeur an American expert.

"The butler is the only servant here and he can't say for certain that it belonged to his master.

He had no other servants in his house than men cooks; his butler, footman, housekeeper, coachman, and grooms, were all cooks.

Professor Butler had formerly been tutor in the family of the Wards, and was equally esteemed by them and the public of Louisville generally.

My butler was a soldier who had been with me in India, and was not supposed to fear anything,man or devil,certainly not the former; and I felt that I was losing time.

She had learnt the true value of money; she had found out what the world was like; and it seemed to her that some such person as Mr. Smithson was essential to her existence, just as a butler is a necessity in a house.

Butler's is the best done picture of the country, Kennaway's the exactest of the settlers' every-day rough-and-tumble haps and mishaps, and Lady Barker's the brightest.

Butler's is the best done picture of the country, Kennaway's the exactest of the settlers' every-day rough-and-tumble haps and mishaps, and Lady Barker's the brightest.