Excerpt from Claudia Hyde: A Novel

The ordinary domestic would have reminded him of the fact by saying, Did you ring, sir? Giddings would have stood there silent for the remainder of the day, most likely, first, certainly until he either received an order, or permission to retire. The grenadiers of Frederick the little-great were not greater martinets and disciplinarians in their way than Giddings in his. It was his religion to be a gentleman's gentleman, and if the genre was not great, he at least was great in it, no man ever had a better servant, and few are they in this world, and none in this country, who have ever known what it is to have one as good.

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