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"Madame is dressing," announced that most faithful of old servitors, Henri, who before Alice conferred a full-fledged butlership upon him in his old age was since his youth a stage-carpenter at the Th��tre Fran�ais.

From A Village of Vagabonds by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

Jasper’s exclamation was fervent beyond all rules of butlership.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

But it will all come right; and if I were you, I should go in for the butlership.

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville

For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

Against his master’s protests, he resigned his butlership.

From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert