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"Well, well," she proceeded, "the parlour's the parlour, and the kitchen's the kitchen, and I'm only a cook. But then I conduct myself AS Cook, even when I'm in the scullery, and I only wish ladies, and ladies' YOUNG ladies too, would conduct themselves as ladies, even when they come into the kitchen; that's what I call being honourable and upright.
The thought of it pleased him ever so much too, and he went in and went to bed feeling in a happier mood than he had done for a long time. The mood was on him the next morning too, when he came down to breakfast. "Where are the children?" he asked, as he went to the scullery for his heavy working boots. "Oh, out in the garden.
On going away, he remembered to have closed it; on trying it now, he found it open. He waited outside, never losing sight of the house, till daylight. Then he ventured indoors listened, and heard nothing looked into kitchen, scullery, parlor and found nothing; went up at last into the bedroom it was empty.
But even that, on this side, had six windows, and he searched their flat glitter in vain for a peg to hang a guess upon. He had almost made up his mind to creep to that open scullery door and try his luck when, from the third window from the right, behind the glass there shone something white.
Tom ran out and opened the front door quickly, for it was not the weather in which to keep people waiting, and so it happened that the little group from the door and the little group from the scullery met in the passage, and entered the room together. "Oh-h-h!" squealed Margery. "I say!" cried Charlie. "Well, I never!
"My faith! but this is the drollest affair I ever was in;" and the baron sat on the edge of the table and held his sides. "Monsieur Carewe! Ha! ha! You are a little too stiff to dance, eh? Shall I tender your excuses to the ladies? Ass! did you dream for a moment that such canaille as you, might show your countenance to any save the scullery maids? Too stiff to dance! Ye gods, but that was rich!
Here casting the light of his dark lantern round, brutus discovered some cold fowl and a ham; they took these into the kitchen, and somewhat coolly took out their knives and ate a hasty but hearty supper. Their way of hacking the ham was as lawless as all the rest. They then took off their shoes and dropped them outside the scullery window, and now the serious part of the game began.
"A place to wash in!" she snapped crossly. "Why, you must wait until some of them have gone out, then you can go to one of the bedrooms, unless you'd like to wash at the tap, out there," pointing to the scullery; "there's a dipper there you can use." Jessie gladly accepted the last offer.
I don't like daft folk about my hoose." "There'll be dafter folk as me in your hoose yet," spluttered Gilmour angrily, as he turned away. He went up to the garret where he slept and brought down his trunk. As he passed through the scullery, bowed beneath the clumsy burden on his left shoulder, John, recovered from his sobbing, mocked at him.
Then, instead of going upstairs, she passed into the yard and, stepping over the fence, opened Mr. Flynn's back door. "Halloa!" said that gentleman, who was standing in the scullery removing mud from his boots. "What's up?" In a frenzied gabble Mrs. Scutts told him. "You must be 'im," she said, clutching him by the coat and dragging him towards the door.
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