Chapter 37
Before Mr. Bowls came to preside over Miss Crawleys house and cellar in Park Lane, that lady had had for a butler a Mr. Raggles, who was born on the family estate of Queens Crawley, and indeed was a younger son of a gardener there. By good conduct, a handsome person and calves, and a grave demeanour, Raggles rose from the knife-board to the footboard of the carriage; from the footboard to the butlers pantry. When he had been a certain number of years at the head of Miss Crawleys establishment, where he had had good wages, fat perquisites, and plenty of opportunities of saving, he announced that he was about to contract a matrimonial alliance with a late cook of Miss Crawleys, who had subsisted in an honourable manner by the exercise of a mangle, and the keeping of a small greengrocers shop
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