Head gardener's cottage was good enough for gentry.

The old Markis used to walk round the hothouses an' gardens talking to him by the hour.

If you did what he told you EXACTLY like he told it to you, then you were all right, but if you didn't--well, you was off the place before you'd time to look round.

Worked under him from twenty to forty.

Then he died an' the new one that came in had new ways.
He made a clean sweep of most of us.