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But none the less the master of Bangletop went to bed hungry; nor could he do any better in the morning at breakfast-time. The butler had not been trained to cook, and the coachman's art had once been tried on a boiled egg, which no one had been able to open, much less eat, and as it was the parlor-maid's Sunday off, there was absolutely no one in the house who could prepare a meal.
Her gathering anxieties got the better of her discretion, and even of her timidity. Instead of answering her mistress, she suddenly and confusedly ventured on a question of her own. "I beg your pardon, ma'am," she said. "Did you mean me to offer for the parlor-maid's place at St. Crux?" "You?" replied Magdalen. "Certainly not! Have you forgotten what I said to you in this room before I went out?
"The time for kindness has gone by; it only overpowers me now. Good-night!" When the morning came, the affirmative answer which Magdalen had anticipated was the answer given. On that day the landlady received her week's notice to quit, and Louisa's needle flew fast through the stitches of the parlor-maid's dress. From Miss Garth to Mr. Pendril. "Westmoreland House, January 3d, 1848.
Crux rang as usual on the day of George Bartram's departure, it was remarked that the new parlor-maid's place at table remained empty. One of the inferior servants was sent to her room to make inquiries, and returned with the information that "Louisa" felt a little faint, and begged that her attendance at table might be excused for that day.
Upon this, the superior authority of the housekeeper was invoked, and Mrs. Drake went upstairs immediately to ascertain the truth for herself. Her first look of inquiry satisfied her that the parlor-maid's indisposition, whatever the cause of it might be, was certainly not assumed to serve any idle or sullen purpose of her own.
She answered readily and confidently now. "Could you teach the duties to another servant?" asked Magdalen. "Yes, ma'am easily, if she was quick and attentive." "Could you teach the duties to Me?" Louisa started, and changed color. "You, ma'am!" she exclaimed, half in incredulity, half in alarm. "Yes," said Magdalen. "Could you qualify me to take the parlor-maid's place at St. Crux?"
I mean you to be married, and go to Australia with your husband and your child. You have not waited as I told you, to hear me explain myself. You have drawn your own conclusions, and you have drawn them wrong. I asked a question just now, which you have not answered I asked if you had forgotten your parlor-maid's duties?" "Oh, no, ma'am!" Louisa had replied rather unwillingly thus far.
In the interval, while you are making the dresses, I can be learning the parlor-maid's duties. When the house-servant here has brought up the dinner, and when you and I are alone in the room instead of your waiting on me, as usual, I will wait on you. When the week is over, and the dresses are done, we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings you as the mistress and I as the maid."
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