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Updated: October 11, 2025
"Well, my dear, you will want a waiting-woman, anyhow; and I think I will send Pitapat to wait on you; she can sleep on a pallet in your room, and be some company." "And who is Pitapat, Mrs. Condiment?" "Pitapat? Lord, child, she is the youngest of the housemaids.
I kept up the vigil for my desired pupil until I heard one of my adoring housemaids confide to the other that she had "the great grief to relate Jenkins Sensie was getting little illness in her head. She condescended to respond to the honorable knock at her door and she a great teacher lady!" After this I transferred my observations to the crescent-shaped window at one end of my study.
Just like housemaids do in their spare hours to trim Heaven knows what garment of unbleached calico. I asked her what it was for, and she said for the children's pinafores in her "guild" work. If one doesn't call that waste of time, I wonder what is. Mrs. Carruthers said it was much more useful to learn to sit still and not fidget than to fill the world with rubbish like this.
Within two weeks there had been much trouble with the chefs de cuisine, and every housekeeper was in deep grief. Servants are the universal discomfort from the banks of the Hudson to those of the Amoor. Man to be happy must return to the primitive stages of society before cooks and housemaids were invented. The hills around Nicolayevsk are covered with forests of small pines.
Do you realize it all, Clara? You, the well-known leader of a large social circle you, the proud beauty and envied lady of rank and fashion, you will be made a subject for the coarse jests of lawyers, the very judge on the bench will probably play off his stale witticism at your expense, your dearest friends will tear your name to shreds, the newspapers will reek of your doings, and honest housemaids reading of your fall from your high estate, will thank God that their souls and bodies are more chaste than yours!
Instead of confessing the comfort which he had received from that letter, and holding her close to his breast while he did confess it, he should have stood away from her quite as far apart as he had done from the countess; and he should have argued with her, showing her how foolish and imprudent her letter had been, explaining that it behoved her now to repress her feelings, and teaching her that peers' daughters as well as housemaids should look out for situations which would suit them, guided by prudence and a view to the wages, not follow the dictates of impulse and of the heart.
A footman and two housemaids are believed to have been dismissed on the report of heavy Benson that they were in or inclining to the state; upon which an undercook and a dairymaid voluntarily threw up their places, averring that "they did not want no young men, but to have their sex spied after by an old wretch like that," indicating the ponderous butler, "was a little too much for a Christian woman," and then they were ungenerous enough to glance at Benson's well-known marital calamity, hinting that some men met their deserts.
Marian went to the dining-room, where she found Douglas standing near the window, tall and handsome, frock coated and groomed to a spotless glossiness that established a sort of relationship between him and the sideboard, the condition of which did credit to Marian's influence over her housemaids. He looked intently at her as she bade him good morning.
I am sophisticated, too, sophisticated enough to have cherished my flavours as a gourmet tries to save the bouquet of old wine. You think that the Tower is the pleasure of housemaids on a Bank Holiday. But it quite makes me quiver to think of it," laughing again.
The only real restraint on laborers of any class among us nowadays is the difficulty of finding another place. Whenever it becomes as easy for clerks, draughtsmen, mechanics, and the like to "suit themselves" as it is for cooks or housemaids, we find them as faithless.
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