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Miss Temple swallowed all this with even greater pleasure than the sweetmeats; and the officious Hobart, not to lose time, was helping her off with her clothes, while the chambermaid was coming.
An extension of the system of ringing once for the boots, twice for the chambermaid, and so on. The ordinary American table of calls goes up to nine. The provision of writing materials free for the guests of the hotels. The charge for stationery is one of the pettiest and most exasperating cheese-parings of the English Boniface's system of account-keeping.
Berths sixteen and eighteen. Come with me, and I'll show you where they are." So the two children, accompanied by Maria, followed the chambermaid, who led the way across the cabin, and there, entering a passage way, she opened a door, by means of a beautiful porcelain knob which was upon it. They all went in.
"What? Eh?" "It's so social," said little Eve Edgarton. "Social?" choked her father. As bereft of expression as if robbed of both inner and outer vision, little Eve Edgarton lifted her eyes to his. "Why two of the hotel ladies have almost been to see me," she confided listlessly. "And the chambermaid brought me the picture of her beau. And the hotel proprietor lent me a story-book. And Mr.
She was disposing of her flowers in ollas when Jim Budd, waiter, chambermaid, and odd jobs man at the Bar Double G, appeared in the hall with a frightened, mysterious face. "What's the matter, Jim? You and Hop Ling been quarrelling again?" she asked carelessly. "No'm, that ain't it. It's wusser'n that. I got to tell you-all su'thin' I hearn yore paw say." The girl looked up quickly at him.
As when the traveller asks the chambermaid if he can have his linen back from the wash in time to catch an early train, and notices an expression passing across her face as she replies, "Impossibilissimo!" well knowing that nothing is easier, only she wants an extra fifty centimes even such an expression did I see not passing across the face of the bride, but frozen upon it as she sat with her back up against the wall frowning on the company.
Barnes walked out beside Miss Thackeray. "The tailor-made gown is an improvement," he said to her. "Does that mean that I look more like a good chambermaid than I did before?" "If you would consider it a compliment, yes," he replied, smiling. He was thinking that she was a very pretty girl, after all. "The frock usually makes the woman," she said slowly, "but not always the lady."
His butler was a Javanese, his chef a Quan-tung Chinese, his valet a Japanese, his chambermaid a Martinique negress, and his chauffeur an American expert. These had nothing in common and could not ally themselves to cheat him, he said. As I came back to the front veranda McHenry and Llewellyn were talking excitedly.
Bianca, our Columbine, has all the makings of a beauty she has but just turned the corner of seventeen; and Lauretta, who plays the scheming chambermaid, is more than passably good-looking.
I must be true to my friend. I could not let him." "But he must," I said, "at any rate if he does not I will. I have three weeks and in that three weeks I am going to find the chambermaid. I am going to get a plan of your room and your friend's room, and I'm going to make her understand that she was mistaken.
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