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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Miss Loach liked to 'ave things straight this way for the night, bein' of tidy 'abits. She thought the floor bein' clear left the 'ousemaid, who was Geraldine, room to sweep and dust thoroughly. Mr. Clancy 'ave the same fancy, though being a man as tidy as ever was." "Strange Mr. Clancy should be tidy," said Jennings drily. "He certainly is not so in his dress. Now the best thing you can do, Mrs.
What passed, sir, I couldn't 'ear. I 'eard her say, 'Any message? And I FANCY, sir, I 'eard 'er say, 'I'm the 'ousemaid, but that, sir, I think must have been a mistake, sir." "Must have been," said Benham. "Certainly must have been. And the call you think came from ?" "There again, sir, I'm quite in the dark. But of course, sir, it's usually Mrs. Skelmersdale, sir.
He handed me a paint-dappled copper stencil-plate, two feet square, bearing in the centre the six-inch initials, "G.M." "Ten minutes ago I'd ha' eulogised about that little trick of ours, but Morgan's performance has short-circuited me. Are you happy, Morgan?" "Bustin'," said the signalman briefly. "You may be. Gawd forgive you, Morgan, for as Queen 'Enrietta said to the 'ousemaid, I never will.
So both the cook an' 'ousemaid worn't by no manner o' means surprised when Mister Arbroath packed 'is bag an' went off in a trap to Minehead an' we'll be left with a cheap curate in charge of our pore souls! Ha-ha-ha! But 'e's a decent little chap, an' there'll be no 'igh falutin' services with 'im, so we can all go to Church next Sunday comfortable.
Says he, when he'd done, 'Simon, you'll never have small-pox now. 'Think not? says I. 'Never, says he; and when Susan the 'ousemaid heard on it, she says, 'I am so glad, Simon. Then, says I, 'Susan, when people are married they're converted into one flesh. That's scripter.
Well, as I told yer months ago, I went to the 'ousemaid for a mite 'o comfort, and catches 'er a-courtin' wi' the coachman. So I goes 'ome, and I says I'll write 'er a letter as would charm a dead duck in a saucepan. So I begins my letter this yer way: 'My dearest dear, I says, 'times es bad, and people be glad to catch anything; so I, thinkin' small-pox better than nothin', catched that.
I used to think after that waccinatin' business gived me small-pox, that I was done for; but that 'ere Emily the 'ousemaid 'ev bin waccinated, and she 'ev had small-pox too. "Well, Simon, what was her reply?"
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