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Updated: July 11, 2025
Away they go pounding together! The line lies over flint fallows occasionally diversified with a turnip-field or market-garden, and every now and then a "willa" appears, from which emerge footmen in jackets, and in yellow, red and green plush breeches, with no end of admiring housemaids, governesses, and nurses with children in their arms.
Good-natured David played a merry tune in spite of his heart; and even at that disadvantage it was so spirit-stirring compared with anything the servants had heard, it made them all frisky, of which disposition Tom, the stable boy, who just then came into the yard, took advantage, and, leading out one of the housemaids by the polite process of hauling at her with both hands, proceeded to country dancing, in which the others soon demurely joined.
Well, I think that's all that I want to know, thank you very much. Now what about the other servants?" "Elsie heard the master and Mr. Robert talking together," said Audrey eagerly. "He was saying Mr. Mark, I mean " "Ah! Well, I think Elsie had better tell me that herself. Who is Elsie, by the way?" "One of the housemaids. Shall I send her to you, sir?" "Please."
But I didn't think he had a good influence over my other pupils, so before I planned that Italian journey on which you refused to accompany me I advised him to leave my tuition I wasn't modern enough, I said. I also advised him to make up his mind whether he wanted to be a sane architect he despised questions of housemaids' closets and sanitation and lifts and hot-water supply or a scene painter.
Nevertheless, this pet joke of Gabriel's did not dissipate the constraint and disappointment left upon the company by Uncle Sylvester's unsatisfying performance and early withdrawal, and they separated soon after, Kitty and Marie being glad to escape upstairs together. On the landing they met two of the Irish housemaids in a state of agitated exhaustion.
Cooks are paid from $4 to $7 a month; housemaids from $3 to $6 a month; men butlers from $10 to $15; coachmen from $12 to $16 a month; scullery maids and men of all work receive corresponding wages. Nearly all of these domestic customs here related apply to Sweden as well as Norway, and there are many interesting additional ones. In Sweden the state dinners at the palace are always at six o'clock.
I don't know what more could have been done at so short a notice than to order two carriages, two housemaids, and a cook. A word or two must also be said of the old lady who made one of the party. The Honourable Mrs. Morton was now seventy, but no old lady ever showed less signs of advanced age. It is not to be understood from this that she was beautiful; -but that she was very strong.
Bessie saw the action and, as far as in her lay, was touched. But there remained always a keen sense of new-found superiority, and it was in her voice when she spoke. 'How long have you been like this? she said wrathfully, as though the blindness were some fault of the housemaids. 'How? 'As you are.
My next care was to get rid of the nurse, so I have packed her off to Brécy with one of the other servants for some medicine for Mathilde, and the coast is clear to the nursery now. There is only one of the housemaids with the baby, and when you are ready to start you must lose something and require her to find it while I secure the child.
The general, between his cocoa and his newspaper, had luckily no leisure for noticing her; but to the other two her distress was equally visible. As soon as she dared leave the table she hurried away to her own room; but the housemaids were busy in it, and she was obliged to come down again.
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