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"Why, which do you like the best, to live as they do at your uncle's, up in Vermont, or to have a house-full of servants, as we do?" "O, of course, our way is the pleasantest," said Eva. "Why so?" said St. Clare, stroking her head. "Why, it makes so many more round you to love, you know," said Eva, looking up earnestly. "Now, that's just like Eva," said Marie; "just one of her odd speeches."
After dinner I to the office, and there wrote letters and did business till night and then to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards.
Again Miss Ophelia sat in blank silence. "Now, there's no way with servants," said Marie, "but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What she will do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants I always am; but you must make 'em know their place.
"'Mice here! Mice here! Whoo hoo! it shrieked. "On hearing this the cocks nudged one another, and said, 'We are in luck's way at last. Then as the owl still continued to call for mice, one of them plucked up courage and addressed it: 'If you will only come with us, sir, you shall have as many mice as you can eat a whole house-full, if you like.
"Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps. Look at that shirt every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood! Must a ben a raft uv 'm at it right along, all the time, amost.
Only yesterday he went to doña Pepa's farmhouse to greet the 'eminent artist, as he calls her. There's no end to what he tells. Trunks in every corner, enough to pack a house-full of things into, and silk dresses ... shopfuls of them! Hats, I can't say how many; jewelry-boxes on every table with diamonds that strike you blind.
"It's very soon after poor Harry Wyndham's death, to be receiving company," said Lady Selina, solemnly. "Really, mamma, I don't think it will be treating Fanny well to be asking all these people so soon. The O'Joscelyns, or the Fitzgeralds, are all very well just our own near neighbours; but don't you think, mamma, it's rather too soon to be asking a house-full of strange people?"
"Musha! it's like a house-full of Turkish corpses," whispered Ted as he surveyed the recumbent figures in white around him. There were some differences between this genuine Turkish bath and our British imitation of it which merit notice. The court or hall in which the friends unrobed served the purpose of a drying-chamber as well as a dressing-room.
I'd have come, even if you hadn't been beautiful; but I was wild to be your playmate, for I'd heard nothing but 'Miss Betty Carewe, Miss Betty Carewe' from everybody I saw, since the minute my stage came in. You set 'em all mad at your ball, and I knew we'd make a glorious house-full, you and I! Some of the vagabonds will turn up this very evening, you'll see if they don't. Ha, ha!
After dinner I to the office, and there wrote letters and did business till night and then to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards.
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