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I forgot to tell you of an appointment of mine at a place called Canleys, about twenty miles or more from here. I gave my word, so I keep it. The landlady at the inn, Mrs. Rundles, motherly kind of woman; she will be attentive. They don't cook badly, for an English inn, I have heard. Madge here will act as your lady's-maid for the time.
"You have lately become acquainted with Miss Yolland, I am told," she began. "Whew!" whistled Godfrey, yet hardly as if he were surprised. "I have been compelled to know a good deal of that lady." "As lady's-maid in her family, I believe." "Yes," said Mary then changing her tone after a slight pause, went on: "Mr. Wardour, I owe you more than I can ever thank you for.
"It's quite enough; she's in one of her tearing fits. Since that night in Germany, when she ripped up that old hack of a white horse, I've not seen her look so savage! her eyes shine like burning candles." "Then she must have her fine collar on," said Morok, quietly. "Her fine collar?" "Yes; her spring-collar." "And I must be lady's-maid," said the giant. "A nice toilet to attend to!"
"I will not go, mamma, if they are unkind to you." "You must go, my dear. It is only that they are weak enough to think that they can acknowledge you, and yet continue to deny to me my rights. But it matters nothing. Of course you shall go, and you shall go as the daughter of the Countess Lovel." That mention of the lady's-maid had been unfortunate. Mrs.
Bluestone was a lady with most intimately confidential friends, but she was sworn to secrecy. It might have come from Sarah, the lady's-maid, whom the Countess had unfortunately attached to her daughter when the first gleam of prosperity had come upon them.
I told her how I had left my own country, intent on extending my knowledge and gaining my bread; how I was ready to turn my hand to any useful thing, provided it was not wrong or degrading: how I would be a child's nurse or a lady's-maid, and would not refuse even housework adapted to my strength. Madame heard this; and questioning her countenance, I almost thought the tale won her ear.
She was still mentally agape at her novel surroundings when Parkins, Mrs Hamilton's maid, entered the room to dress Mavis. Parkins's appearance surprised her; she was wholly unlike her conception of what a lady's-maid should be. Instead of being unassumingly dressed, quiet, self-effacing, Parkins was a bold, buxom wench, with large blue eyes and a profusion of fair hair.
It was after my wife. She was lady's-maid to Squire Ammaby's mother, and the old Squire got me the school. Ah, those were happy days! I was a godless, rough sort of a fellow when she married me, but I became a converted man. And let me tell ye, lad, when a man and wife love GOD and each other, and live in the country, a bit of ground like this becomes a very garden of Eden."
One of my sisters was lady's-maid to Lady Williams, Sir Watkin's wife, at the time when your father came visiting there for the shooting of the moor-fowl, soon after his marriage with your mother. What a sweet good lady your mother was! I never saw the like before or since. No sooner did I set eyes upon her but she so took my fancy that I would have gone round the world with her.
He was going to his brother, who had a big farm in the shires a proper farm, with great fields each of which was nearly as big as a marsh farm, fifty, seventy, a hundred acres even. Joanna bitterly resented Arthur's going, but she could not prevent it, for if he stayed Ellen threatened to go herself. "I'll get a post as lady's-maid sooner than stay on here with you and Arthur.
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