The big gates were open, a tall porter dressed in red and gold lace and buttons, and a staff in his hand, was waitingtwo or three men in black, and four or five footmen in red liveries and powder, at the door and in the hall.

" Presently the butler returned accompanied by a footman with several keys.

Rag, Footman to Gayman.

We stuffed the loot into a grip I'd brought for the purpose, and beat itslipped out through the drawing-room window one second before Madame de Montalais came back with that doddering footman of hers.

On one occasion, when he lodged in St James's Street, I recollect him rating the footman for using a double knock in accidental thoughtlessness.

When I arrived, the one footman at the door told me Madame Grevy was un peu souffrante, would see me up-stairs.

And James is blind, deaf, and dumb toward everything that doesn't concern him," he added, as she glanced at the stalwart footman behind the chair.

By some meansexactly how is not quite certainthe police discovered that Dick Archer, alias Woodroffe, alias Hornby, was concerned in the clever robbery of a dressing-bag, containing the Dowager Lady Lancashire's jewels, from her footman on Euston platform, and after a long search they found him hiding at an hotel in Liverpool.

She was glad to find distraction in the arrival of a nameless visitor, announced by the most pompous of footmen as "a young person desirous of waiting on her ladyship.

The door which had let the footman into the hall admitted to a spacious foyer which set apart the entrance andas the play of the electric torch discloseda deep and richly furnished dining-room.

Several minutes later a melancholy, hungry-looking camel, emitting clouds of smoke from his mouth and from the tip of his noble hump, might have been seen crossing the threshold of the Howard Tate residence, passing a startled footman without so much as a snort, and leading directly for the main stairs that led up to the ballroom.

The footman near the outer entrance said none had passed since Lord Cedric's arrival.

"Why, I should think I know more about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a little bit wild.

"The work once done, our labor there is o'er, And home we travel," to ourselves we said. Close kept our footmen round the chariot track; Our eager host in close battalions sped.

And why is Latin more necessitous for a footman than a gentleman?

" Then I rose and followed the footman through several wide corridors filled with palms and flowers, which formed a kind of winter-garden, until we crossed a red-carpeted ante-room, where two statuesque sentries stood on guard, and the man conducting me rapped at the great polished mahogany doors of the room beyond.

He had come in from school one cold day in the beginning of December, and was watching with keen interest the roasting of an apple suspended from a string in front of the fire, when there was a sharp knock at the door, and the footman from the Hall appeared.

It appears that Harvey had sent a footman up to Aunt Maria's door, to tell of the first Clarkes' arrival, and then, terrified by Lady Farrington's voice, had rushed up himself to announce the second lot, and he met Aunt Maria on the stairs coming down, and of course she never heard the difference between "Mrs." and the "Misses," and thought he was simply hurrying her up for the first set.

And minister to him who serves a slave; Be sure you fasten on promotion's scale, Even if you seize some footman by the tail: 70 The ascent is easy, and the prospect clear, From the smirch'd scullion to the embroider'd peer.

It can therefore be readily imagined with what delight he recognized the delinquent footman amidst the crowd, and with what alacrity he descended and pounced upon him just at the most critical moment of the game.