maidservent

Updated: June 27, 2025

Here the postman's knock, loud and sudden, started Mrs. Morton from her seat. She pressed her hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the slipshod maidservent. "Give it me, Jane; give it me!" "One shilling and eightpence double charged if you please, ma'am! Thank you."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Night and Morning, Volume 1

Here the postman's knock, loud and sudden, started Mrs. Morton from her seat. She pressed her hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the slipshod maidservent. "Give it me, Jane; give it me!" "One shilling and eightpence double charged if you please, ma'am! Thank you."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Night and Morning, Complete