Frida Kahlo Roots painting
Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
" Reginald Musgrave sat down opposite to me and lit the cigarette which I had pushed towards him.
""You must know," said he, ' that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for
-482-it is a rambling old place and takes a good deal of looking after. I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed. Altogether there are eight maids, the cook, the butler, two footmen, and a boy. The garden and the stables of course have a separate staff.
"' Of these servants the one who had been longest in our service was Brunton, the butler. He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household. He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead, and though he has been with us for twenty years he cannot be more than forty now. With his personal advantages and his extraordinary gifts -- for he can speak several languages and play nearly every
Thursday 19 June 2008
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