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But strange, strange his soul passed into his instrument. Or passed half into his instrument. There was a big residue left, to go bitter, or to ferment into gold old wine of wisdom. He did not notice the dinner gong, and only the arrival of the chamber-maid, to put the wash-table in order, sent him down to the restaurant.
I found her in the hands of her pretty chamber-maid, and she advised me to go to Redegonde's dressing-room, as she played a man's part, and might, perhaps, allow me to assist in her toilette. I followed her advice, but the mother would not let me come in, as her daughter was just going to dress.
For his own service in the above circumstances we give him the credit to believe that, on the persons specified below applying among others to him for employment, as chamber-maid and house-servant, and also as hands for the vessel, he would, in preference to any ordinarily recommended white applicants, at once engage the two black servant-girls at President Churchill's in Dominica, the droghermen there as able seamen, and as cabin-boy the lad amongst them whose precocious marine skill he has so warmly and justly extolled.
From that accident I turned and sought the kind black male chamber-maid with a request that he show me how to insert myself into the right place for sleeping. "Right here, Boss. Climb up on these little steps and then hand me down your shoes. Soft now; I think the lady am asleep."
"What do you think?" He thought not, either. After another quarter of an hour, the dustman not merely impending, but actually arriving, recourse was had to the Constantinopolitan chamber-maid: who cheerily undertook that the child should sleep in a comfortable and wholesome room, which she herself would share.
The one you have just seen pass will probably dress and redress three times this evening, as a princess, a peasant-girl, a Tyrolese; by which she will earn about two hundred francs a month." "She is better dressed than my prefect's wife." "If you should go to her house," said Bixiou, "you would find there a chamber-maid, a cook, and a man-servant.
Saturday night found us without cook or chamber-maid, and with only two rooms in order in the whole house, viz. our chambers on the second story. By great persuasion, Nancy was induced to stay during Sunday and cook for us. An advertisement in the newspaper on Monday morning, brought us a couple of raw Irish girls, who were taken as better than nobody at all. With these new recruits, Mrs.
Isaac was cook, chamber-maid, and everything, thoughtless of himself, and struggling, out of the slimmest means, to compound a breakfast for a large and hungry family. Breakfast would be announced any time between ten and twelve, and dinner according to circumstances.
"Jes so," screeched the capting. "What wessel's that air?" "Kickin Warier of Terry Hawt, and be darned to you!" "I, I, Sir!" hollered our capting. "Reef your arft hoss, splice your main jib-boom, and hail your chamber-maid! What's up in Terry Hawt?" "You know Bill Spikes?" said the capting of the Warier. "Wall, I reckin. He can eat more fride pork nor any man of his heft on the Wabash.
The professor obediently did all this for a time; but as the days passed Ishmael saw that the old man's greatest happiness consisted in staying with and serving his master; and so he at length permitted the professor to relieve the chamber-maid of her duties in his rooms, and take quiet possession and complete charge of them. And never were rooms kept in more perfect order.
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