Word: servente
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...caring for the sickly Clark. The co-leader's journal entries afford only the briefest glimpses of a man whose name he often didn't capitalize. We hear of York at work, sawing wood for huts or gathering cress for his master's dinner. There's steamed York: "my Servent nearly exosted with heat thurst and fatigue." And frozen York: "my Servents feet also frosted & his P--s a little." An overworked York: "my boy york verry unwell from violent Colds & Strains Carrying in meet and lifting logs on the huts to build them." And a York, uneasily at play...
Although Clark took York for granted, the Native Americans were intrigued by him. The Arikara Indians were "much asstonished at my Black Servent and Call him the big medison." This could create problems in Clark's eyes: "my black Servent...made him Self more turrible in thier view than I wished him to Doe...telling them that before I cought him he was wild & lived upon people." Yet Clark could play the York card when it served his purpose: "I ordered my black Servent to Dance which amused the Croud verry much...
Retainers had vivid recollections as well. The Pulitzer twins' former nanny, Estelle Godbout, testified last week about surfside lovemaking, in view of Mack and Zack between Roxanne and Race Car Driver, Jacky Ickx. Another servent, Johnny Capers, testified about trysts between Mrs. Pulitzer and two other men. One of her lovers, Peter Pulitzer charges is a drug dealer who threatened to kill him. For her part, Roxanne claims Peter threatened to shoot her if she did not check into a hospital for drug abuse therapy. She obeyed, and was hospitalized for five days last year...
...pyramid in Egypt, to which the lovers have raced their steeds across the desert sands and then struggled upwards, step-by-step. Finally the lucky couple ditch her in the streets of an unidentified Egyptian city, and board, and board their cruise down the Nile, servent...
...could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began by selling his paper bonus to a speculator for a pittance. Then he pocketed his pride and begged. "I went into Nombers of there shops and would say, your servent gentlefolks, I wish you much Joy with the nuse of peace. . . . Some of them would pity us and would give us some thing, some half a Dollar, some a quarter, some less, some nothing but frowns...
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