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By degrees the humble lady's-maid obtained the same ascendency over the Queen that had been exercised by the mistress of the robes, in the one case secured by humility, assiduous attention, and constant flatteries; in the other, obtained by talent and brilliant fascinations.
Perhaps he asks to see me: I hope he asks to see me. A quarter to eight: Miss Aldclyffe's bell rather earlier than usual. 'She must have heard the post-bag brought, said the maiden, as, tired of the chilly prospect outside, she turned to the fire, and drew imaginative pictures of her future therein. A tap came to the door, and the lady's-maid entered.
His wife ain't a lady, but having a lady's-maid shows she intends to set up for one when she gets to home. To be a lady, she must lay in a lot of airs, and to brush her own hair and garter her own stockins is vulgar; if it was known in First Avenue, Spruce Street, in Bonnetville, it would ruin her as a woman of fashion for ever. 1 Calaboose is a Southern name for jail.
Into this house, however, Jane Margaret, by which name only she was known, entered as lady's-maid; but as no servant but herself could remain, she found herself at the age of sixteen obliged to be cook and housemaid and porteress all at once.
Lodgings of any sort could with difficulty be obtained, and at last only by breaking up the party. The poor suffering lady, with her two friends, Lady Carbery and my mother, hired one house, Lord and Lady Massey another, and two others were occupied by attendants all the servants, except one lady's-maid, being every night separated by a quarter of a mile from their mistresses.
You can't imagine a mode of life more barren of consolation, less capable of being invested with a spark of glamour unless it be the business of an insurance canvasser. Little Bob Stanton Charley here knew him well had gone through that experience. The same who got drowned afterwards trying to save a lady's-maid in the Sephora disaster.
"He was always fond of his jest," commented Mrs. Higgs. "That he were!" observed her lord. But it was after he went into the diplomatic service that the real trouble began. "It seems, sir, that he went the pace extraordinary," said the ex-butler, with a solemn gusto. "His debts were somethink awful," said the lady's-maid. "And as nice a young gentleman all the time as you would wish to see!"
She had lived for four years in her last place as lady's-maid, with a family residing in Dorsetshire. The one objection to her had been the occasional infirmity of sleep-walking, which made it necessary that one of the other female servants should sleep in the same room, with the door locked and the key under her pillow.
This was a little Hampton maiden, whom she had brought from the country to act as fag and deputy to her grand nurse; but the grand nurse was now gone, and the fag was promoted to the various offices of nurse, lady's-maid, and parlour servant. The rest of the household in Albany Place had already dispersed with the discreet view of bettering their situations.
Adolphine was rather a hinderance to the bustling Irish help, for a Parisian lady's-maid knows one especial business, and knows nothing else, however simple; she is an instrument that plays but one tune, and she boasts of her speciality as a virtue. In something more than an hour Adolphine announced that the apartment of M. le Comte was in readiness.
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