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Relations of the Two in England-A Dem
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Relations of the Two In England-A Dem
onstrative Butler.
Gen. Badeau, writing on the relation
of master and man in England, says:
| was staying once with ayoungnoble-
man who had a crowd of peers for
guests. We had been dining some miles
away and drove back late at night in
what is called an omnibus. The valet
of one of the visitors, alad of nineteen
or twenty, stood on the steps outside.
By a jolt of the carriage this youth
ws9S thrown off into the road while we
were still some distance from the
house, and the whole party alighted
to look after him. He was unable to
walk or to endure the motion Of the
carriage, and a couple of discounts, an
officer OF the army and a baronet car-
ried the valet a quarter OF a mile up q
steep hill; then bore him into the room
of the master OF the house, and one
tore open his shirt to look for his
wound. There was no surgeon, so
they bathed his breast and his fore
head themselves, and the youth lay
on the nobleman's bed till it was GER
tain he was not seriously injured. Not
till then did the gay young rollickers
assemble below for their late carouse.
| know another nobleman whose
eldest son was standing for parlia-
ment. The contest was keen, and the
excitement in the family extended to
/, the servant, Finally, the heir was
elected, and the news was brought to
the earl and the countess as they
stood On the steps of the house in a.
crowd of friends and followers. The
butler, a very respectable man of ff-
ty or more. who had been in the fami-
ly all his life, was unable to contain
his delight. He rushed up to his mis-
tress, threw his arms around her and
kissed her, and the salute was forgiv-
en- by the lady as well as the lord. /
did not witness this demonstration of
fidelity, but | was told by an English
man who was present and pronounc-
ed it unusual, but not inexcusable.
The queen, it is&well known, sets the
pattern in this consideration for per-
| sonal retainers. She not only visits
her gillies in the Highlands, but the
servants on all her estates; she at
tends their balls and their cnristen-
ings and funerals; she invites them at
times to Entertainments at which she
is present in person; an honor she
never pays the nobility; and her affec-
ton for her devoted John Brown she
has been anxious to make known to
the world.
Twice / was present at country
houses where the servants joined in q
dance with the family. Once it was
after q servants wedding, which was,
of course, an event. On the other oc-
casion at q well-known lodge on the
Grampians, a highland reel was pro-
posed, but there were not ladies
enough to go round SO the best look
ing of the house-maids were brought
in and placed in the line with mar
chionesses and the daughters of .earls.
One was by far the prettiest of her
sex in the room, and the air of the
house didn't like it at all if any OF his
guests danced too often with his maid.
Butnone of these young spinsters pre-
sumed on the favor that was shown
| them; the distance in rank was toe
great to he bridged by any transient
familiarity. It was the very con
seriousness of the gulf that made the
cohdescension possible.
At the house of a nobleman who
had q crowd of sons and these al
ways q crowd of boyish visitors, the
whole frolicsome party was sent off
nightly after the ladies had retired, to
q distant tower of the castle where
they might make as much noise as
they pleased. They drank and they
smoked, and they played cards, and
had two or three of the footman told
off to them who stayed up half the
night with their young masters to wait
on them and amuse them. Theyoung
men were all of the same age, and the
gentlemen often invited the servants
to a cigar or q glass and not unseldom
to a turn at thegloves, for mostyoung
Irishmen box. They played fair; the
lords and the lackeys wrestling to-,
gether on an equality. The servant
might get his master down ii he could,
and II the valet struck out from the
shoulder the ~gentlemaE took his
punishment like a Only when
the lords went to bed the lackeys had
still an hour in the brnsssing room,
whitening the hunting breeches oi
their masters for next days field.