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And if you heard of a housekeeper's place vacant, would you tell me of it?" I could hardly understand whether she was in jest or in earnest. She went on without waiting for me to reply. "But I have my daughter to think of," she resumed, "and to add to my anxieties my daughter has given her heart to Mr. Keller's son.
'I would request a little not unneedful haste, cousin, she went on, 'for my lord of Worcester is very precise in all matters of household order, and likes ill to see any one enter the dining-room after he is seated. It is his desire that you should dine at his table to-day. After this I must place you with the rest of my ladies, who dine in the housekeeper's room.
I I will have to get a larger loan. Well, get me what lunch you can, Ruth, my dear, and I'll go out at once." Alice did not say "movies" again, not even when the very modest and frugal lunch was set. And it was about the "slimmest" meal, from a housekeeper's standpoint, that had ever graced the DeVere table, used as they had become to scanty rations of late. Mr.
He was still too weak to get up to breakfast; but, when he came down into the housekeeper's room next day, his first act was to cast an eager glance at the wall, in the hope of again looking on the face of the beautiful lady. His expectations were disappointed, however, for the picture had been removed. 'Ah! said the housekeeper, watching the direction of Oliver's eyes. 'It is gone, you see.
They were going on, but spying me, they colored up to the ears, and ran away as fast as they could, though I did all in my power to detain them. When Miss Stanley came in to make breakfast, she beautifully exemplified the worthy housekeeper's description.
No sooner was breakfast over than she flew to the consultation in the housekeeper's room. Joanna was the housekeeper, and Mrs. Randolph's right hand; a jewel of skill and efficiency; and as fully satisfied with her post and power in the world, at the head of Mr.
He filled the housekeeper's glass. "I am a poor judge of wine," she remarked humbly. "It seems to me to be delicious." She put her glass down, and noticed that Jack's eyes were fixed on her, with a solemn and scrutinizing attention. "Do you see anything remarkable in me?" she asked lightly. "I was thinking," Jack answered. "Thinking of what?"
Was ever such a dull, lonesome, humdrum place as this same Hurricane Hall?" complained Cap, as she sat sewing with Mrs. Condiment in the housekeeper's room. "You don't like this quiet country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment. "No! no better than I do a quiet country graveyard! I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you!" said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.
Dolph, having talked his mother into a state of tranquillity, sought the mansion of his quondam master, and raised the knocker with a faltering hand. Scarcely, however, had it given a dubious rap, when the doctor's head, in a red night-cap, popped out of one window, and the housekeeper's, in a white night-cap, out of another.
At that point the housekeeper's lavender-colored dress, the umbrella, and the feeble little figure in nankeen walking under it, became visible in the distance. The captain slackened his pace immediately, and issued his directions to Magdalen for her conduct at the coming interview in these words: "Don't forget your smile," he said. "In all other respects you will do.
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