Parker at a hotel

Usage examples of valet.

Isabella and two for Joanna, a staff of esquires, clerks of pantry and butlery, chief cook, valets of larder and kitchen, valets de chambre, water- carriers, candle-bearers, porters, grooms, and other attendants.

Her old man does the valeting and butling, her ma cooks, and Elsie hands out the cap and apron dope.

He came to offer me the services of his young brother Petronio during my stay in Ancona, instead of my engaging a valet de place.

He returned in a short time, and the valet came in again with him without having been called.

At Naples he had cheated the Chevalier de Morosini by persuading him to become his surety to the extent of six thousand ducats, and now he arrived in Florence in a handsome carriage, bringing his mistress with him, and having two tall lackeys and a valet in his service.

Hotel Cosmopolis, Archie, looking about him and revising earlier judgments, was inclined to think that of all his immediate circle he most admired Parker, the lean, grave valet of Mr.

When I got up my landlord brought me a valet de place, for whose character he said he could answer, and he then sent up an excellent dinner.

I therefore did not want to have at my heels a valet who might have injured rather than served me.

The valet, who did not know me, shewed me into a delightful boudoir near a closet in which there was a bath.

He received me in his dressing-room, where he was writing while his valet did his hair.

The valet did my hair, and the maid did my room, everything was changed, and I imagined that I had given the count a little lesson, and that I should have no more trouble with him.

And they took their valets with them -- just to give their boots a rub Ere they started operations on the Geebung Polo Club.

He was a bright young Italian, who had been valet to the Prince de la Catolica, the ambassador from Naples.

I left him and addressing myself to a sharp Italian page said that I would give two ducats to the valet who would furnish me with the names of the Cologne ladies who were in Bonn, and of the gentlemen who had accompanied them.

The valet told us that these manuscripts contained the history of the last Prussian war, and the king had been so annoyed by their accidentally getting burnt that he had resolved to have no more to do with the work.