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Updated: September 8, 2025
The turret clock had scarce done striking when the door was pushed wide; somebody entered and instantly closed it. I had a brief feeling of disappointment as I saw the slovenly frock and overhanging cap of the kitchen-maid. Was it she, then, who paid me the compliment of this clandestine visit?
You would hardly wish Henry to marry a young woman who, from want of money, had not been brought up among ladies. It is not Miss Crawley's fault, but such has been her lot. We cannot ignore these deficiencies, papa." "Certainly not, my dear." "You would not, for instance, wish that Henry should marry a kitchen-maid." "But is Miss Crawley a kitchen-maid, Susan?" "I don't quite say that."
I am going to the medicine-chest next, to physic the kitchen-maid an unwholesome girl, whose face-ache is all stomach. In the meantime, Norah, my dear, you will find your work and your books, as usual, in the library. Magdalen, suppose you leave off tying your handkerchief into knots and use your fingers on the keys of the piano instead? We'll lunch at one, and take the dogs out afterward.
He now began house-keeping, hired a French cook, a house-maid, and kitchen-maid, and kept a great deal of the best company. About this time, Mr Sterne, the celebrated author, was taken ill at the silk-bag shop in Old Bond-street. He was sometimes called 'Tristram Shandy, and sometimes 'Yorick; a very great favourite of the gentlemen's.
At length he ran off, and Miss Cordsen was left, arranging her cap-strings, and saying to herself, "They are all alike, one and all." But when Gabriel ran across the yard, and, meeting the fat kitchen-maid Bertha, gave her a friendly slap on the back, the old lady clapped her hands together, and exclaimed, "Well, I declare, he is the worst of the whole lot!"
"Agnes would not know, Madam, for she had unfortunately burnt her hand in trying the wick of the new lamp from town " Trimmle, as Mary was aware, had always been opposed to the new lamp "and so Mrs. Dockett sent the kitchen-maid instead." Mary looked again at the clock. "It's after two! Go and ask the kitchen-maid if Mr. Boyne left any word."
In the awful pauses of the banquet, and the hall-door being furthermore open, we had the benefit of hearing: The cook, and the occasional cook, below stairs, exchanging rapid phrases regarding the dinner; The smash of the soup-tureen, and swift descent of the kitchen-maid and soup-ladle down the stairs to the lower regions.
'Well, well! said the kitchen-maid, 'off with you; but don't let me catch you staying there a bit over the time when the brose for supper must be set on the fire, and the roast put on the spit; and let me see; when you come back, mind you bring a good armful of wood with you. Yes! Shortshanks would mind all that; so off he ran down to the strand.
"But the kitchen-maid SAW him. Send her here," she commanded, wondering at her dullness in not thinking sooner of so simple a solution. Trimmle, at the behest, vanished in a flash, as if thankful to be out of the room, and when she reappeared, conducting the agitated underling, Mary had regained her self-possession, and had her questions pat. The gentleman was a stranger, yes that she understood.
When everyone had left, the little kitchen-maid crept from behind some bushes, where she had been hiding. Her face was tear-stained, and she carried in her hand two slender white flowers. They were the plants grown with such loving care in the old tin box on the window-sill; and she laid them with a sigh amongst the rich wreaths and crosses. "Good-bye, dear mistress!
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