Of all the luxuries of which Hartley Parrish's sudden rise to
wealth gave him possession, Bude, his butler, was the acquisition
in which he took the greatest delight and pride. Bude was a large
and comfortable- looking person, triple-chinned like an archdeacon,
bald-headed except for a respectable and saving edging of dark
down, clean-shaven, benign of countenance, with a bold nose which
to the psychologist bespoke both ambition and inborn cleverness. He
had a thin, tight mouth which in itself alone was a symbol of
discreet reticence, the hall-mark of the trusted family retainer.
Bude had spent his life in the service of the English aristocracy.
The Earl of Tipperary, Major-General Lord Bannister, the Dowager
Marchioness of Wiltshire, and Sir Herbert Marcobrunner, Bart., had
in turn watched his gradual progress from pantry-boy to butler.
Bude was a man whose maxim had been the French saying, "Je prends
mon bien ou je le trouve."
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