The only thing he seems really incapable of being, is an efficient butler; which is so unfortunate, as I like him far too well ever to part with him.

Michael says I have a perfectly fatal habit of LIKING PEOPLE, and of encouraging them to do the things they do well and enjoy doing, instead of the things they were engaged to do.

I suppose I have; but I do like my household to be happy." They alighted, and Myra trailed into the hall with a lazy grace which gave no indication of the masterly way she had handled her ponies, but rather suggested stepping from a comfortable seat in a barouche.

Jane looked with interest at the man-servant who came forward and deftly assisted them.

He had not quite the air of a butler but neither could she imagine him playing a concertina or haranguing a temperance meeting and he acquitted himself quite creditably.
"Oh, that was not Lawson," explained Myra, as she led the way upstairs.
"I had forgotten.