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Updated: June 6, 2025
The widow was left in affluence; but reverses of various kinds had befallen her; a bank broke an investment failed she went into a small business and became insolvent then she entered into service, sinking lower and lower, from housekeeper down to maid-of-all work never long retaining a place, though nothing decided against her character was ever alleged.
It is a woman who is at the bottom of the Trojan war itself. Woman throughout the Iliad is a being to be loved, teased, laughed at, and if necessary carried off. We are told in one place of a fine bronze cauldron for heating water which was worth twenty oxen, whereas a few lines lower down a good serviceable maid-of-all- work is valued at four oxen.
Bingle's maid-of-all- work could see her way clear to become Mrs. Diggs, and the equal of Mrs. Watson, if not her superior by virtue of the position of her husband's name on the firm's business cards. But if Diggs was devotedly loyal to Melissa, Melissa was equally loyal to Mr. Bingle. Fifteen years of kindness had not been wasted on this extraordinary servant.
Home's and I want to see the children. Are the children in?" she asked of the little maid. Rounder and rounder grew that small domestic's eyes. "They can't be hout without me," she volunteered; "ain't I the nuss and maid-of-all work? Yes, the children is hin."
I say 'family, for a French family, unlike an English one, includes its domestics; wherein our neighbours have the advantage over us. In the British establishment the household is but too often thought of and treated as furniture. I was as fond of Rose the cook and maid-of-all- work as I was of anyone in the house.
So the little maid-of-all work opened, and, in obedience to his orders, she being a sixth-standard scholar, and not stumbling once at a hard word, read the letter. And as she read, the young man sat upright in his chair, pulled the pipe from lips which had fallen open in astonishment, and fixed unblinking eyes of innocent blue upon the handmaiden.
"Not if she were dying?" "I doubt it," said Billy, unmoved. "You see, the mater hasn't much use for Dinah, except as a maid-of-all work. Never has had. It's not altogether her fault. It's just the way she's made." "Good heavens!" said Scott, and added, as if to himself, "That little fairy thing!" "She can't help it," said Billy. "She can't get on with the female species.
Great, therefore, was the dismay when it was rumoured that the low comedian and the maid-of-all- work were on the sick list with a doctor's certificate.
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