The staff of servants had been increased at her suggestion and under her directions, and the menservants were put into livery. |
William and his father had been received by Campbell and some other menservants and relieved of their coats. |
Both had menservants full of character – Wimsey had Bunter, who had kept him alive during the first world war, and Campion had the brilliantly named and wonderfully realised ex-cat-burglar, run to fat, Magersfontein Lugg. |
The menservants all threw themselves repeatedly at the door. |
Taxes on hats, dice, clocks, salt, hair powder, gloves, artificial flowers, menservants, game certificates and armorial bearings have also been used in the past. |
They reached the great doors of the palace and she threw them open before the menservants could even move to do so for her. |