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He wanted the blood of a certain neighbouring spring-Captain, a hunter of "flappers" and molester of parlour-maids, home on furlough, who made eyes at her at the Hunt Ball and followed her about all Cricket Week and said something to her which, as Dam heard, provoked her coolly to request him "not to be such a priceless ass". What it was she would not tell Dam, and he, magnifying it, called, like the silly raw boy he was, upon the spring-Captain, and gently requested him to "let my cousin alone, Sir, if you don't mind, or er I'll jolly well make you". Dam knew things about the gentleman, and considered him wholly unfit to come within a mile of Lucille.
Thomas Denby; got out, went up the white marble steps, rang the bell, and was admitted into the narrow but charming hall dim turquoise-blue velvet panelled into the walls, an etching or two: Whistler, Brangwyn by a trim parlour-maid. Ten generations, at least, of trim parlour-maids had opened the door for Mr. McCain.
Cecil came face to face with his brother in the room where refreshments were being dispensed by solemn-looking footmen and trim parlour-maids. He stared at him for a moment in surprise. "What on earth are you doing here, Andrew?" he asked. "Exactly what I was wondering myself," Andrew answered, setting down his empty glass.
Ballinger, whose obligations to society were bounded by the narrow scope of two parlour-maids, should have been so tenacious of the right to entertain Osric Dane. The question of that lady's reception had for a month past profoundly moved the members of the Lunch Club.
They were mostly cousins, who inhabited dingy houses with engravings from Cole's Voyage of Life on the drawing-room walls, and slatternly parlour-maids who said "I'll go and see" to visitors calling at an hour when all right-minded persons are conventionally if not actually out.
"Of course," she said, "please be quick." "If you cannot wait," replied Fridji, "you must go without." "You must not speak to me like that. You know very well that parlour-maids say 'ma'am' and are expected to be respectful." "Parlour-maids! I am no parlour-maid." "Indeed?" said Amaryllis. "Here I am mistress!" "Oh!" said Amaryllis. "And you are prisoner I tell you." "Yes?" said Amaryllis.
I am always inclined to call out, Church, Count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram. Besides his dumb-waiter, Mr Meagles had two other not dumb waiters in the persons of two parlour-maids with rosy faces and bright eyes, who were a highly ornamental part of the table decoration. 'And why not, you see? said Mr Meagles on this head.
Denby would be down immediately, and were once again seeking the back of the house, no doubt their eyebrows, blonde, brunette, or red, apexed to a questioning angle. In the manner of youth the parlour-maids had come, worked, fallen in love and departed, but Mr. McCain, in the manner of increasing age, had if anything grown more faithful and exact to the moment.
"Yes, dear," she said. "Got an idea. Take away Janet's frock, and wear it myself. Then you can wear yours. Too pretty for parlour-maids. Eh?" A heavenly brightness spread over Miss Mapp's face. "Oh, how wonderful of you to have thought of that, Diva," she said. "But how shall we explain it all to everybody?" Diva clung to her rights. Though clearly Christian, she was human.
Taynton looked at him again with some attention, and then glanced round to see if the discreet parlour-maids were about. "So you are called Martin now," he observed gently. "Yes, sir." "I recognised you at once." There was a short pause. "Are you going to tell Mr. Morris, sir?" he asked. "That I had to dismiss you two years ago for theft?" said Mr. Taynton quietly.
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