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Excerpt from The Butler's Story: Being the Reflections, Observations, and Experiences, of Mr. Peter Ridges, of Wapping-on-Velley, Devon, Sometime in the Service of Samuel Carter, Esquire, of New York, Written by Himself and Edited, the Camorra in Italy and an American Lawyer at Viterbo
IT is fifteen years and over since Lord Craven called me into his study after luncheon and says, 'ears have they but they hear not, eyes have they but they see not, tongues have they but they speak not.' Do you know to wot that refers, Ridges? No, my lord, says I. To men servants, says he, and particular to butlers, looking at me very hard. Very good, my lord, says I. That is all, says he. Thank you, my lord, says I, and I left his presence, and up to this time have neither seen, heard, nor spoke, saving of those things a butler should, for he was a wise man if a hard drinker, and I was heartbroke to leave his service on account of the bankruptcy, although he paid us all off private before he was posted.
That was how I came to leave England hoping that I might run across him again, although he was going into the cattle business, and perhaps enter his service.
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