The nobleman in waiting is a Snob.

If it degrades the Prince to receive the gun from the gamekeeper, it is degrading to the nobleman in waiting to execute that service.

He acts as a Snob towards the keeper, whom he keeps from communication with the Prince--a Snob to the Prince, to whom he pays a degrading homage.
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The King-Consort of Portugal is a Snob for insulting fellow-men in this way.

There's no harm in his accepting the services of the keeper directly; but indirectly he insults the service performed, and the servants who perform it; and therefore, I say, respectfully, is a most undoubted, though royal Snob.
And then you read in the DIARIO DO GOBERNO--'Yesterday his Majesty the King took the diversion of shooting the woods off Cintra, attended by Colonel the honourable Whiskerando Sombrero.