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Updated: June 3, 2025
"My dear Aline, I know them all. You can't stump me on below-stairs etiquette. I've been a lady's maid!" "Joan!" "It's quite true three years ago, when I was more than usually impecunious. The wolf was glued to the door like a postage stamp; so I answered an advertisement and became a lady's maid." "You seem to have done everything." "I have pretty nearly.
Below-stairs, at early daybreak, Maurice awoke upon his sofa. He was sore and stiff as if he had been racked; he did not stir, but lay looking listlessly at the windows, which gradually grew white under the light of a cloudy dawn.
I wasn't two hours in the house before my old woman brought me the story from Mary. Ay, stare if you like, but they all know it below-stairs, and a nice way you are discussed in your own house! Getting a promise out of a poor boy in a brain fever, making him give a pledge in his ravings! Won't it tell well in a court of justice, of a magistrate, a county gentleman, a Kearney of Kilgobbin? Oh!
Daniel, my brother called him; but I know nothing of his country or of his belongings. 'Daniel is a Christian name, not a family name, is it not? We have scores of people like that Tommasina, Riccardi, and such like in Italy, but they mean nothing. 'Our friend below-stairs looks as if that was not his failing. I should say that he means a good deal.
His knees grew sick and old and quavery as he heard the landlady's voice loud below-stairs: "Now wot do they want? It's eleven o'clock. Aren't they ever done a-ringing and a-ringing?" The landlady, the tired thin parchment-faced North Countrywoman, whose god was Respectability of Lodgings, listened in a frightened way to Istra's blandly superior statement: "Mr.
When Lady Caroline Lamb had become too troublesome to a political husband, she had been sent to Brocket. And then Mr. Lamb was only Irish Secretary without a seat in the cabinet. How was it possible to take an important share in steering the ship of state, and to look after a giddy wife at the same time? Ashe and his guests lingered late below-stairs.
We found Miss Jellyby trying to warm herself at the fire in the writing- room, which Priscilla was then lighting with a smutty parlour candlestick, throwing the candle in to make it burn better. Everything was just as we had left it last night and was evidently intended to remain so. Below-stairs the dinner-cloth had not been taken away, but had been left ready for breakfast.
In short, to drop all metaphor and figure, Mrs Honour, having scolded violently below-stairs, and continued the same all the way up, came in to her mistress in a most outrageous passion, crying out, "What doth your ladyship think?
Mrs Honour departed according to orders, and finding Black George below-stairs, delivered him the purse, which contained sixteen guineas, being, indeed, the whole stock of Sophia; for though her father was very liberal to her, she was much too generous to be rich.
"Mara, is not there anything you want?" "There might be many things; but His will is mine." "You want to see Moses?" "Very much; but I shall see him as soon as it is best for us both." "Mara, he is come." The quick blood flushed over the pale, transparent face as a virgin glacier flushes at sunrise, and she looked up eagerly. "Come!" "Yes, he is below-stairs wanting to see you."
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