There are three, or at most four, domestics at board wages.
All that I was asked to taste was a piece of bread-and-butter.

As my foot was on the step of the chaise, when about to enter it, I was informed that his lordship had ordered that I should take as much game as I liked.

What makes the steward, Joe Murray, an interesting object to me, is that the old man has seen the abbey in all its vicissitudes of greatness and degradation.

Once it was full of unbounded hospitality and splendour, and now it is simply miserable.

If this man has feelings--of which, by the way, he betrays no symptom--he would possibly be miserable himself.