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Since you like to treat your daughter like a maidservant, you may go on and search my boxes," said Janet, sulkily. "I beg your pardon, my poor child, if I am unjustly causing you this humiliation," said Caroline humbly, as Janet sullenly flumped down into a chair without answering. She took up the keys that Janet had brought with her, and tried them one by one, where Janet had been using them.
They must have thought that you did not want to be bothered when you were attending to your baggage and things. Is anybody with you?" "With me!" exclaimed Mrs. Cliff; "who could be with me?" "Oh, I didn't know," replied the other; "I thought perhaps you might have a maidservant, or some of those black people you wrote about." Mrs.
'Bless my heart! cried Bhagtu,'but that is simply the most heartrending tale I ever heard in my life! I must really mourn likewise! Whereupon he wept, and wailed, and beat his breast, until he went completely out of his mind; and when the Queen's maidservant came to buy of him, he gave her pepper instead of turmeric, onion instead of garlic, and wheat instead of pulse.
The pretty maidservant smiled and bowed him into the cool, dim drawing-room, where Alice was seated at the piano. She rose and said instinctively to the servant, "Tell mamma Captain Farnham is here," and immediately repented as she saw his brow darken a little. He sat down beside her, and said: "I come on a twofold errand.
On the bench beside the gate sat the old maidservant with his little sister, a child six years old. Handing the flowers, which he had kept hidden behind his back, to her, he said: "Take them and carry them to mother, Bessie; this is the anniversary of her wedding-day. Give her warm congratulations too, from us both." The child rose, and the old servant said, "You are a good boy, Adrian."
And this fiery, tender oration came from the same lips which, a few weeks before, had been blanched with fear before a flippant maidservant, and had quivered as they swore, 'I know not the man! One or two simple observations may be made by way of introduction.
And, bursting into tears, he repeated the verse of Job: "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me, what shall I do when God riseth up?" These and many such things, both of learned men and of simple, I hope yet to chronicle for the youths of Israel.
Her voice broke, tears gushed from her eyes, and she turned quickly to hide them and left the room. She passed into the sitting room, stood there thinking awhile, and then went into the maids' room. There an old maidservant was grumbling at a young girl who stood panting, having just run in through the cold from the serfs' quarters.
The honest fellow's hands, I remarked, were very large and black; and a fine odour of the stable was wafted about the room as he moved to and fro in his ministration. I should have preferred a clean maidservant, but the sensations of Londoners are too acute perhaps on these subjects; and a faithful John, after all, IS more genteel.
A pretty maidservant, heated and flushed with orders and compliments, crossed his path with a tray full of glasses. "There's a lady come by the Telegraph?" "Yes, sir, upstairs, No. 2, Mr. Morton." Mr. Morton! He shrank at the sound of his own name. "My wife's right," he muttered. "After all, this is more unpleasant than I thought for." The slight stairs shook under his hasty tread.
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