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"Well?" said the Senator, "well, Daisy, I suppose you have told your brother about this odd affair?" As his daughter nodded, he went on: "As for me, I have unfortunately nothing to tell. We found the studio, and everything was exactly as this poor young lady said it would be with the one paramount exception that her husband was not there! And though his housekeeper seems to be expecting Mr.

I was well enough off to be a comfortable and free housekeeper, and as independent as a king on my own farm; living in abundance, nay, in superfluity, so far as all the ordinary wants were concerned; but men hesitated a little about setting up for gentlemen at large, in the year 1797.

Now she reached out a hand and touched her bell. "Misery," she said to the old housekeeper, "show my niece, Miss Patricia, to the rose chamber. And see that she is made comfortable." "Thank you," said Patsy, jumping up to go. "Make yourself perfectly free of the place," continued Aunt Jane, in an even tone, turning to Patricia, "and have as good a time as you can.

"Day before yesterday I think. I hardly know. The time seems confused. As if I had been wandering, round and round, forever. I was almost dead, wasn't I?" "Yes. But 'twas our housekeeper who was first to see it was starvation. Angelique is a Canadian. She lived in the woods long before we came to them. She is very wise."

In vain the old housekeeper expostulated with Faynie, urging her to come down at least to the drawing-room evenings, as she used to do. Faynie shook her golden curls. "It is no longer my home," she would say, with bitter sobs; "I am only biding my time here the six months that I am in duty bound to remain then I am going away it does not matter where."

To her the father turned now for certain things to be done, treating her in his rough fashion as a housekeeper, and the girl felt flattered and docile accordingly. They were pitiably clad; like many farm-children, indeed, they could hardly be said to be clad at all.

Then, should we find ourselves presented to the housekeeper, sitting, in hushed state, at needlework, in a bay- window looking out upon a mighty grim red-brick quadrangle, guarded by stone lions disrespectfully throwing somersaults over the escutcheons of the noble family.

A woman was seated in the kitchen rocker; a stout woman, with her back toward him. The room, in contrast to the bright sunshine without, was shadowy, and Seth, for an instant, could see her but indistinctly. However, he knew who she must be the housekeeper at the bungalow "Basket" or "Biscuit" his helper had said was her name, as near as he could remember it. The lightkeeper ground his teeth.

"Aunt doesn't like me to go a-walking only when I'm going somewhere," said Hetty. "But I go through the Chase sometimes." "And don't you ever go to see Mrs. Best, the housekeeper? I think I saw you once in the housekeeper's room." "It isn't Mrs. Best, it's Mrs. Pomfret, the lady's maid, as I go to see. She's teaching me tent-stitch and the lace-mending.

Judging that she would require faithful assistance in the internal management of her house, Adrienne had written to the bailiff of Cardoville, and his wife, old family servants, to come immediately to Paris: M. Dupont thus filled the office of steward, and Mme. Dupont that of housekeeper.