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Drake led Magdalen first to the pantry, and next to the linen-room, installing her, with all due formality, in her own domestic dominions. This ceremony completed, the new parlor-maid was taken upstairs, and was shown the dining-room, which opened out of the corridor on the first floor. Here she was directed to lay the cloth, and to prepare the table for one person only Mr.
We always listen on the stairs for 'im to greet your ma. We like 'im, that we do." "I have an old dress in my trunk, Tildy, which I will give you. You can manage to make it look quite nice for your new post as parlor-maid at Laburnum Villa. But now go, please; for I must be alone to think." Tildy went. She crept downstairs to the kitchen regions. There she met Mrs. Ross.
"I must be out of the house first, Mr. Hector," she said and I think she meant "before I confess my love." The impression Annie had made upon her master may be judged from the fact that he rose and went, leaving his son and the parlor-maid together. What then passed between them I cannot narrate precisely.
"It is true they all stay with us; but then we don't keep many." "How many, dear?" "There's Pegeen she is the parlor-maid and there's the cook we do change our cook sometimes, for mother is rather particular; then there is the woman who attends to the fowls, and the woman who does the washing, and I think that is about all.
Gresley looked eagerly at the door. The parlor-maid came in with a note between her finger and thumb. "She is not there," said Mr. Gresley, in a shaking voice. "I wrote Mr. Pratt such a guarded letter, saying Hester had imprudently run across to see them on her return home, and how grateful I was to Mrs. Pratt for not allowing her to return, as it had begun to snow. He says he and Mrs.
There was no sign there of any living person. After a moment's hesitation, he opened the gate, passed up the neat little path and rang the bell. It was opened after the briefest of delays by the trim parlor-maid. "Is your mistress at home?" he asked. "Miss Edith has gone to London for two days, sir," the girl announced. "The professor is in his study, sir." Burton stood quite still for a moment.
Marchbanks's great oak staircase, to go up which had been such a privilege for the bidden few. Rough feet would go over it, unbidden, to-night. She met Mrs. Marchbanks at her bedroom door. In the upper story the cook and house-maids were handing buckets now to the men outside. The fine parlor-maid was down in the kitchen at the force-pump, with Olivia and Adelaide to help and keep her at it.
Hobart's fire-gown, and what it had been made and waiting for, unconsciously, all these years, she might not have given those quiet orders to her discreet, well-bred parlor-maid, by which she was never to be "disengaged" when Mrs. Hobart called. Mrs.
The page is a very convenient servant to have when there is no second-man or when there are no men-servants at all. His duties are many and varied. He runs errands for everyone in the house, assists the parlor-maid, looks after the open fire places and opens the door to callers. Sometimes he even serves as a sort of miniature footman, sitting next to the chauffeur in complete footman livery.
Along the wall, ranged up in line, like soldiers facing their captain, or victims of a hold-up their captor, stood the household servants portly Shaw the butler, Beatrice the parlor-maid, Eliza the "chef-cook" all, down to the gay young sprig, aforesaid, who, as Martha had explained to her family in strong disapproval, "was engaged to do scullerywork, an' then didn't even know how to scull."
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