United States or Yemen ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
On inquiry, I found that my faithful attendant was actually gone, and far on her way to the town of Galway; and in her stead there appeared a tall, raw-boned, ill-looking, elderly Frenchwoman, whose sullen and presuming manners seemed to imply that her vocation had never before been that of a lady's-maid.
I am getting to be quite a skilled lady's-maid now, and am not sure it ought not to be my permanent métier, though I do like to think I was born for better things, and comfort myself by remembering how mother used to say that a lady can always do everything better than a common person if she chooses to try, even menial work, because she puts her intelligence and love for daintiness into all she does.
I was only in it on sufferance, to oil the wheels of it, so to speak, for my betters; yet golden joy ran through all my veins as gaily, as generously, as if I were a princess instead of a lady's-maid.
I say, Lady Deane, it's a queer thing to have a lady's-maid to breakf Why, by Jove, she's with them now! Look!" His excited interest aroused the attention of the whole party, and they looked across the long room. "Ashforth's their name," concluded Laing. "I heard the Abigail call him Ashforth; and the lady is " He was interrupted by the clatter of a knife and fork falling on a plate.
The lamp above was so dim that the carriage was almost totally dark. No wonder the lady's-maid was frightened! but the daylight came streaming in, and all poor Clive's wishes of rolling and rolling on for ever were put an end to by the implacable sun in a minute. Ah, why was it the quick train? Suppose it had been the parliamentary train? even that too would have come to an end.
"I didn't mean to have you work, Lily," said Dan. "You have been a lady's-maid all your life, and never did any work." "Well, I know how; and I'm going to do my share. I should not feel right to live like a lady here. I mean to do all the work in the cabin, and the cooking too." "No, Cyd and I will do that." "Mossifus! Do all dat, and all de rest too."
These were little difficulties from which she usually knew how to extricate herself without embarrassment; but she had not expected to have to marshal her forces against such an enemy as Lord Rufford, or to sit down for the besieging of such a city this campaign. There were little things which required to be done, and the lady's-maid certainly had not time to go to church on Sunday.
I was, by accident, the first that Mrs. Menlove named the matter to, and I told her it might be much to her advantage if she took particular care it should go no further. 'Mrs. Menlove! Who's she? 'The lady's-maid at Mrs. Doncastle's, my lord. 'O, ah of course. You may leave me now, Tipman. Lord Mountclere remained in thought for a moment.
The old lady might deal shabbily with her faded ribbons and her relations, but the butler, the housekeeper, and the lady's-maid did their best to keep up the credit of the family. It was well known that Madam Liberality was a cousin, and Podmore resolved that she should have a proper frock to go down to dessert in.
Wyatt had engaged passage for his wife, it became necessary that some person should personate her during the voyage. This the deceased lady's-maid was easily prevailed on to do. The extra state-room, originally engaged for this girl during her mistress' life, was now merely retained. In this state-room the pseudo-wife, slept, of course, every night.
Word Of The Day