Vogelstein's servant had secured a porter with a truck, and he was about to leave the place when he saw Pandora Day dart out of the crowd and address herself with much eagerness to the
functionary who had just liberated him.
Conducted to the butler's pantry, Geoffrey requested that
functionary to produce a jug of his oldest ale, with appropriate solid nourishment in the shape of "a hunk of bread and cheese.
By this
functionary he was referred to the doubtful page, who appeared with dishevelled hair and a very warm and glossy face, as of a page who had just got out of bed.
She bowed, and so did I, and then she withdrew her head, while Arthur screamed to the footman to let him out; but before that
functionary could descend from his box a hand was silently put forth from the carriage window.
Poirot had conferred with Japp in a low tone on the way up, and it was the latter
functionary who requested that the household, with the exception of the servants, should be assembled together in the drawing-room.
That
functionary was a good- hearted, tearful, scatter-brained girl, lately taken by Tom's mother, Madam Brown, as she was called, from the village school to be trained as nurserymaid.
The complication was of this nature: Alexey Alexandrovitch's characteristic quality as a politician, that special individual qualification that every rising
functionary possesses, the qualification that with his unflagging ambition, his reserve, his honesty, and with his self-confidence had made his career, was his contempt for red tape, his cutting down of correspondence, his direct contact, wherever possible, with the living fact, and his economy.
You yourself, Kirylo Sidorovitch," the high police
functionary insisted in a low, severe tone of conviction.
But this
functionary of the law reserved one important piece of intelligence, and kept it snugly to himself.
There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this
functionary now took the case into his own hands.
Arthur Clennam, who now felt that he had devoted himself to the storming of the Circumlocution Office, and must go through with it, accompanied the messenger to another floor of the building, where that
functionary pointed out Mr Wobbler's room.
Bumble's glance, however; for that
functionary, on whom the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat had made a very strong impression, thought that now the undertaker had got Oliver upon trial the subject was better avoided, until such time as he should be firmly bound for seven years, and all danger of his being returned upon the hands of the parish should be thus effectually and legally overcome.
