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Updated: July 10, 2025
"One of the maidservants." "We had better have the maid in and question her. What is her name?" "Milly Milly Saker." Merrington touched the bell, and told the maidservant who answered it to send in Milly Saker. The girl came in almost immediately, looking half defiant and half afraid. Merrington glanced at her keenly. "You're the girl I saw dusting the hall this morning," he said.
His linen was spun by his daughters and maidservants, from his own flax; nor did his table, though plentiful, and varied with game and fish, offer an article but what was of native produce.
If she were innocent, let him know that she were innocent, and he would proclaim her innocence, and believe in her innocence, and sacrifice himself to her innocence, if such sacrifice were necessary. But if she were guilty, let him also know that. He knew how bad it was, all that bribing of postmen and maidservants, who took his money, and her money also, very likely. It was dirt, all of it.
The burglar had threatened her with a revolver, and then, finding such bluff futile, had deliberately jumped through a large plate-glass window and vanished. Mrs Gater could not conceive how the fellow had "effected an entrance." It appeared that save for four maidservants, a page, two dogs, three gardeners, and the kitchen-clerk, Mrs Gater was alone in the Hall.
The very footmen sometimes grinned too broadly, the maidservants giggled mayhap too loud, and a provoking air of intelligence seemed to pervade the whole family. Alice Bean, the pretty maid of the cavern, who, after her father's misfortune, as she called it, had attended Rose as fille-de- chambre, smiled and smirked with the best of them.
It was to her the dearest on earth; and she awaited the approach with a flushed cheek and a heart full of joyful emotion. It was no fancy of Catalina's that she heard the shutting of a door as she returned up the avenue. A door in reality had been closed at that moment, the door that led to the sleeping apartments of the maidservants.
I got into a carriage, which he drove himself, and we set off through the town, a dull, sleepy, gloomy town, where nothing was moving in the streets except a few dogs and two or three maidservants.
"The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates." This, again, it will be noted, is open to new interpretations. It specifies maidservants, but does not prevent one's employing as many married women as he pleases.
Yet before I had time to establish myself in my usual coign of vantage behind the door I found myself pounced upon by Mimi always the cause of my misfortunes! "YOU here?" she said, looking severely, first at myself, and then at the maidservants' door, and then at myself again. I felt thoroughly guilty, firstly, because I was not in the schoolroom, and secondly, because I was in a forbidden place.
For my own part I find it impossible to suspect the two old maidservants, Louise and Marie; the tramps whom we have detained and subsequently released are too simple-minded, elementary people to have been capable of devising the minute precautions which demonstrate the subtle cleverness of the man who murdered the Marquise.
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