duty-lodge

Updated: July 14, 2026

Shortly, he made his exit out of the garden gate, and taking a seat in the duty-lodge of the servant-lads, who looked after the garden-entrance, he wrote a prescription. "Sir," urged an old nurse, "don't go yet. Our young master is fretful and there may be, I fancy, something more to ask you." "Wasn't the one I saw just now a young lady," the doctor exclaimed with eagerness, "but a young man, eh?

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II