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"Who is that young lady?" said I to the chambermaid who was escorting me. "That's the wife of a young gentleman who has to keep his bed to get cured of a sword-thrust which he received four days ago on his way from France." I could not look at her without feeling the sting of concupiscence.
We rested after the shop windows of Regent street, took dinner, and went out again, this time to Piccadilly. "The servility of the shopkeepers is really a little offensive. 'What shall I have the honor of showing you? they say. "Our chambermaid, at our lodgings, thanks us every time we speak to her.
For this discovery Fielding takes credit to himself, in the dedication addressed to Mrs Clive, which he prefixed to the Intriguing Chambermaid; and in which he finds opportunity to pay a noble tribute to the private life of that inimitable hoyden of the stage.
With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her own bed, sweeping and dusting her own chamber, which she had hitherto done, in utter scorn of all offers of help from the chambermaid of the establishment, to condemn herself to the martyrdom of instructing Topsy to perform these operations, ah, woe the day!
She probably remembered you because of your size: she mistook you for the guilty person; everybody has always taken you for the ringleader and not the follower." "But what good is it, Frank, what good is it?" he cried. "Even if you convinced the chambermaid and she retracted; there would still be Shelley, and the Judge laid stress on Shelley's evidence as untainted."
And two of Vera's new servants were there to see that Vera was wearing a hat precisely equivalent to the hat of a chambermaid! She went abruptly into the house and sought for Stephen as with a sword. But Stephen was not discoverable. She ran to her elegant new bedroom and shut herself in. She understood the plot. She had plenty of wit. Stephen had concerted it with Felix.
She conducts the lady to her room, asks if she will have the blinds drawn or open, if she will have hot water or cold, if she would like a cup of tea, etc.; sends a neat chambermaid to her to take her orders, gets her pen and paper for her notes in fact, treats her as a lady should treat a guest.
And dear Angela did discuss moving often, but she could never bear to leave the city house, where so many of her dear ones have passed away." "Well, none of my dear ones are going to pass away there," said Phyllis irreverently, "unless Mrs. Clancy wants to. I'm not even taking any servants but Wallis. The country-house doesn't need any more than a cook, a chambermaid, and outdoor man. Mrs.
A young chambermaid passed through the room, and Shiphrah stopped her long enough to introduce me and to command her to look after me as if I were one of the family "even better." THE spacious sitting-room was used as a breakfast-room as well. It was in this room, on the enormous green sofa, that my bed was made for the night. It was by far the most comfortable bed I had ever slept in
At this, the simple girl, all amazed, took her robe and her cotillon, and went upstairs to an old chambermaid, awoke her, and with much hesitation told her what had just happened, and that she had left by the bedside of Madame de Saint Simon a fine gentleman, very young, all powdered, curled, and decorated, who had driven her very quickly out of the chamber.
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