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It means stretching to the uttermost and perhaps stretching too far the elastic powers of that amiable maid-of-all-work, telepathy. For that matter, there are cases in which the telepathic interpretation is even more uncertain, as in that described by Miss R. C. Morton in vol. viii. of the Proceedings. The story is too long and complicated to be reproduced here.
The Mainwaring girls, in their plain dresses and with their unsophisticated manners, looked like ladies, and invariably acted as such. Soon after making her communication Miss Martineau took her leave; she hurried home, and sitting down in her dingy little parlor, began to think. "No, thank you, Susan," she said to her little maid-of-all-work, "I shan't want any supper to-night.
"Liz," she said to the sad-faced girl, who seemed gloomier than ever on this morning, "who was the man who scared you in the rain last evening?" The maid-of-all-work did not look startled. Perhaps she had nerved herself already for just this question. She merely stared at Laura unblinkingly and asked. "What, Ma'am?" "Don't pretend that you don't know what I mean, Liz," said Laura, impatiently.
The door opened and Jeanne, the maid-of-all-work, announced Mr Vince. He entered the room briskly. 'Good evening! he said. 'I have brought you some more chocolates, Miss Warden, and some fruit. Great Scott! What's the matter? He stopped, but only for an instant. The next he had darted across the room, and, before the horrified eyes of Mr Warden, was holding Ruth in his arms. She clung to him.
But I should get a maid-of-all-work at once, so that we shouldn't all be drudges as we are now; then I should not spend a single cent on the house, but just live here in hiding, as it were, till better times come and till we are old enough to go into society. You could scrimp and save for Nancy's coming out, and then for Kathleen's.
Old No. 12 was still at Mira's service, but she couldn't bear the house, she said, and so the ladies moved their furniture into an abandoned bachelor den next to Flight's, and for a few days all went merrily. Then there came a servants' squabble, and their cook differed with Mrs. Flight's maid-of-all-work, and, refusing arbitration, was impudent to her employers. Mrs.
One of his sisters, Marthe, older than himself by a couple of years, accompanied him. She had been in service in Paris, an insignificant maid-of-all-work, but withal so devoted to her brother that she had left her situation to follow him, subsisting scantily on her petty savings. "I was lying on the platform," resumed La Grivotte, "when he was put in the carriage.
Why, a worthless sot of a husband, and a life of misery, care, and anxiety. She'll go from bad to worse, have to slave like a maid-of-all-work, be saddled with a lot of wicked children, and when she gets old they'll pitch her into the street. Ay, ay! the best thing a mother could do for her daughter when it is born would be to bury it!"
If you prefer not to be helped, Lizzie, that is all right." And she walked away; but she did not lose sight of the cook-tent. There was somebody there beside the maid-of-all-work, and Laura was sure she knew who. Lil was inclined to feel abused. She thought that she should have been taken into the secret at the first. "But see how you would have kicked," said the slangy Bobby.
The family consisted of my grandfather; his sister, Miss Abigail Nutter; and Kitty Collins, the maid-of-all-work. Grandfather Nutter was a hale, cheery old gentleman, as straight and as bald as an arrow. He had been a sailor in early life; that is to say, at the age of ten years he fled from the multiplication-table, and ran away to sea. A single voyage satisfied him.
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