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Updated: June 29, 2025
One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale. "Are ye sure the parlour's ready for them, and the fire burning clear, and the chimney no smoking?" said the hostess to a chambermaid. She was answered in the affirmative. "Ane wadna be uncivil to them, especially in their distress," said she, turning to the Deacon. "Assuredly not, Mrs. Mac-Candlish; assuredly not.
"Let it be, lass!" said he. "There's luck in odd numbers, they say. Who knows but we mayn't have a third party come in on the same errand? Let it be, and go make the toast. It's getting on for tea-time, and the fire in the back parlour's nearly out."
This is a two-storied cottage quite large really! I have a parlour besides the kitchen, oh, the parlour's very sweet! it has a big window which my father built himself, and it looks out on a lovely view of the orchard and the stream, then I have three more rooms, and a wash-house and cellar.
"I don't blame you why shouldn't you?" he interrupted her. "I haven't got used to it yet, and there is something amusing about my owning a house. When the parlour's finished I'll have to wear a stiff collar, I suppose, in order to live up to it." Her laughter broke forth, and she tried to imagine him in a stiff collar.... But she was more perplexed than ever.
She is the kitchen physician, the chamber comfort, the hall's care, and the parlour's grace. She is the dairy's neatness, the brew-house's wholesomeness, the garner's provision and the garden's plantation. Her voice is music, her countenance meekness, her mind virtuous, and her soul gracious. She is her husband's jewel, her children's joy, her neighbour's love, and her servant's honour.
'Indeed you may, miss, and if you like to step into my parlour you'll find a fire there; it's no weather to be walking about the streets, and none too pleasant for a young lady like you, not but what I say if you show respect to yourself others will show it to you; still, my parlour's the best place on a day like this, said the baker's wife; for it was a cold, frosty January day.
"I don't blame you why shouldn't you?" he interrupted her. "I haven't got used to it yet, and there is something amusing about my owning a house. When the parlour's finished I'll have to wear a stiff collar, I suppose, in order to live up to it." Her laughter broke forth, and she tried to imagine him in a stiff collar.... But she was more perplexed than ever.
"Well, well," she proceeded, "the parlour's the parlour, and the kitchen's the kitchen, and I'm only a cook. But then I conduct myself AS Cook, even when I'm in the scullery, and I only wish ladies, and ladies' YOUNG ladies too, would conduct themselves as ladies, even when they come into the kitchen; that's what I call being honourable and upright.
Martie spoke rapidly, her colour rising, her blue eyes glittering like stars. "Of course, the back room isn't furnished, but we could scatter some chairs around in there; we'll need all the room for dancing, anyway!" "We couldn't dance on this carpet," Sally submitted, perplexed, as she glanced at the parlour's worn floor-covering.
Will you not come farther in, Miss Vane? or, with a little hesitation, 'would you step into the parlour there is a nice fire and sit down for a few minutes? said Mrs. Fairchild to Rosalys. Rosalys began to thank her, but before she had time to do more than begin Bridget interrupted. 'Oh yes, Alie, please do, she said eagerly. 'I do so want to see what a parlour's like.
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