Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: October 3, 2025
The chamber-maid had left no .......... under the bed: Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah, lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window-seat with the other, cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time, to..................? I was five years old.
The old man made a descent on him. "What are you going to do with that pile of books?" "Fifteen wants 'em, sir." "Fifteen, is it? He'll want a warming-pan, next he'll want a nurse! Take him every thing there is in the house take him the bar-keeper take him the baggage-wagon take him a chamber-maid! Confound me, I never saw any thing like it. What did he say he wants with those books?"
"It was very essential for Stapleton to get some article of Sir Henry's attire so that, in case he was driven to use the dog, he might always have the means of setting him upon his track. With characteristic promptness and audacity he set about this at once, and we cannot doubt that the boots or chamber-maid of the hotel was well bribed to help him in his design.
And thirdly, a memory like unto a sieve, not able to retain what it has received. Call down Dolly your chamber-maid, and I will give you my cap and bell along with it, if I make not this matter so plain that Dolly herself should understand it as well as Malbranch.
To see her so quietly resigned, you would have supposed that she had been both chamber-maid and cook all her life, that is if you never tasted her dishes! I shall always remember her first dinner. O, the Spartan broth of that day! I confidently swallowed all she put before me. Strange and mysterious ragout!
The fellow went out, whispered to the chamber-maid, and returned in less than five minutes with a pair of dice and a leathern box much worn with use. "They belong," he whispered, "to a young gentleman of the Admiral's regiment, who was losing heavily last night." "Thank you; they are the less likely to be loaded. You may retire for a while.
Upon which the landlady, after much civility and many courtsies, took her leave. A dialogue between the landlady and Susan the chamber-maid, proper to be read by all inn-keepers and their servants; with the arrival, and affable behaviour of a beautiful young lady; which may teach persons of condition how they may acquire the love of the whole world.
"Oh, what a coward you are, ain't you?" said Polly. "Do you fall out of bed?" "N not generally, Polly." "No more do I." With that, Polly gave him a reassuring hug or two to keep him going, and then giving that confiding mite of a hand of hers to be swallowed up in the hand of the Constantinopolitan chamber-maid, trotted off, chattering, without a vestige of anxiety.
He led the way down the green corridor, the divisional inspector following. "Well?" asked the superintendent sharply, as he seated himself in his office. "I have seen the manager, a hall-porter and a chamber-maid at the Palatial, sir. They repeat what they said in their statements before. The Princess left the hotel at about ten o'clock.
Microscopes, phials, shallow trays bristling with sprouting seeds, watering-cans, note-books, buckets of tepid water, jars brimming with chemical solutions, blockaded the legitimate and natural runways of chamber-maid, parlour-maid, and housekeeper; a loud scream now and then punctured the scientific silence, recording the Hibernian discovery of some large, green caterpillar travelling casually somewhere in the house.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking