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The kitchen is the housekeeper's workshop; and, in the chapter on House-work, some further details as to methods and arrangements will be given. Having settled the four requisites in any home, and suggested the points to be made in regard to the first one, that of wholesome situation, Ventilation is next in order.
Somehow, the boy thought, the old housekeeper's humble kitchen seemed to gather more brightness and cheerfulness into its rough and smoke-tarnished precincts than the great library, with all its comforts and elegancies, ever held. The reason for this he did not seek; he only knew that it was so, and liked the wooden seat in the chimney-corner accordingly.
He walked the new arrivals about the park and gardens, and showed them the carte du pays, and where there was the best view of the mansion, and where the most favorable point to look at the lake: he showed where the timber was to be felled, and where the old road went before the new bridge was built, and the hill cut down; and where the place in the wood was where old Lord Lynx discovered Sir Phelim O'Neal on his knees before her ladyship, &c. &c.; he called the lodge keepers and gardeners by their names; he knew the number of domestics that sat down in the housekeeper's room, and how many dined in the servants' hall; he had a word for every body, and about every body, and a little against every body.
Zuby Zuby Jane Ginn racin' to lodges and tellin' you YOU to cook your own meals! Go on! You're loony." "Maybe I am, Labe, but it's so." "It's so? And you let it be so? I don't believe it. What do you mean? How long has it been so?" Captain Dan proceeded to tell of his housekeeper's conversion to progress and advancement.
And yet Marion cannot be convinced that her girls are capable of deceit. Poor child, poor child, it is fortunate for her that there is someone at hand to come to her rescue at such a crisis," and Mrs. Stone reached the bottom of the stairs just as the evil-intentioned ghost slipped into the housekeeper's pantry.
In the meantime the two brothers were smoking their pipes in the housekeeper's room, which, at Wharton, when the Fletchers or Everett were there, was freely used for that purpose. "Isn't it rather quaint of you," said the elder brother, "coming down here in the middle of term time?" "It doesn't matter much." "I should have thought it would matter; that is, if you mean to go on with it."
The next morning after Frank had left the house for his daily task, John Wade entered the housekeeper's room. "The boy is out of the way now, Mrs. Bradley," he said. "You had better see if you have a key that will unlock his trunk." The two conspirators went upstairs, and together entered Frank's room. Mrs.
"Ma foi! look you there," exclaimed Colonel Marchand, pointing through the window that overlooked the rear premises of the hotel. At top speed Miss Timmins was crossing the yard toward the big hay barn. Bella had taken refuge in that structure, and the housekeeper's evident intention was to harry her out. The woman grasped a clothes-stick with which she proposed to castigate her niece.
That evening, in the housekeeper's room, Rosa can do nothing but murmur Lady Dedlock's praises. She is so affable, so graceful, so beautiful, so elegant; has such a sweet voice and such a thrilling touch that Rosa can feel it yet! Mrs. Rouncewell confirms all this, not without personal pride, reserving only the one point of affability. Mrs. Rouncewell is not quite sure as to that.
"Are you going to have anything more to eat?" she asked, with a housekeeper's latent impatience to get her table cleared away. "Yes," said Dr. Mulbridge; "I have n't finished yet. And I'm in no hurry this morning. Sit still, mother; I want you to hear something more about my lady friends at Jocelyn's. Dr. Breen's mother and Miss Gleason don't feel alike about her.
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