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"You get me now? What am I to say to her? She'll be sore!" "The problem," Jimmy had begun, "is one which, as you suggest, presents certain " when there was a knock at the door and the head of the boarding-house's maid-of-all-work popped in. "Mr. Bayliss, is Mr. Mitchell ? Oh, say, Mr. Mitchell, there's a lady down below wants to see you. Says her name's Chester."
One of the best men I ever knew was so plagued with his sideboard every day for two years, after dinner, that he married a little new maid-of-all-work because she was a blacksmith's daughter. Nothing of that sort, however, occurred in my case, I am proud to say.
It was not the part of wisdom to start forth on the beginning of his new career in his shapeless prison shoddy; so the next day Larry pottered about the studio, acting as maid-of-all-work, while the clothes in his trunk which had been stored with the Duchess were being sponged and pressed by the little tailor down the street, and while a laundress, driven by the Duchess, was preparing the rest of his outfit for his debut.
"I never seed the like in hall my born days," remarked the small maid-of-all-work. "Mother, mother, mother!" "And look! oh, do look at what I have got!" were the words that greeted Mrs. Home, when, very tired, after a day of hard nursing with one of her husband's sick parishioners, she came back.
To these, her half-sisters, she formed a kind of humble companion, a superior maid-of-all-work. All day long she heard and obeyed the commands of the three young ladies; all day long she was bidden, "Come here", "Go there", "Do this", "Fetch that." And Philippa came, and went, and fetched, and did as she was told. Just now she was off duty.
She saw the open windows of the sitting-room, the Nottingham lace curtains stirring and billowing in the draft, and she caught sight of Maria Macapa's towelled head as the Mexican maid-of-all-work went to and fro in the suite, sweeping or carrying away the ashes. Occasionally in the windows of the "Parlors" she beheld McTeague's rounded back as he bent to his work.
I took the place of her maid-of-all-work. I scrubbed for my living. There wasn't anything else. I hadn't clothes to try for the bolder things, not a friend in the world, but I was only waiting. I meant, at the first chance, to rob Aunt Esther, to come to London, dress myself properly, and find a post on the stage, if possible. I wasn't particular. Then one day a man came to see me an American.
Rossmore had remained for a moment in the dining-room to admonish Eudoxia, their new and only maid-of-all-work, not to wreck too much of the crockery when she removed the dinner dishes. Suddenly Stott, who was perusing an evening paper, asked: "By the way, where's your daughter? Does she know of this radical change in your affairs?" Judge Rossmore started.
"Why, hello!" she called down, surprised, through the tube, in answer to my ring. "Will and you! Really? Come right up." "She doesn't know," I told Will, pushing open the heavy door and beginning to mount. "Guess not," agreed my husband. "Here's her evening paper in her box, untouched." We found Ruth just finishing with the dishes. The maid-of-all-work was out, and Ruth was alone.
I dreaded the honour, for I usually sate on the edge of my chair all the evening, and answered solemn questions, put in a deep bass voice, until household prayer-time came, at eight o'clock, when Mrs Peters came in, smoothing down her apron, and the maid-of-all-work followed, and first a sermon, and then a chapter was read, and a long impromptu prayer followed, till some instinct told Mr Peters that supper-time had come, and we rose from our knees with hunger for our predominant feeling.
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