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Rose found Caroline and Sophia there on either side of a small wood fire, while, facing the fire and spread in a chair not too low and not too narrow for her bulk, sat Mrs. Batty, flushed, costumed for spring, her hat a flower garden. 'Just in time, Caroline said. 'Touch the bell, please, Sophia. 'Susan saw me, Rose said, and the elderly parlourmaid entered at that moment with the teapot.
She would have welcomed the appearance of a butler or a parlourmaid, or any representative of the white race. Yes: there lay the root of the matter this feeling of aloofness from all that was occidental, a feeling which the English appointments of the room did nothing to dispel. Then a gong sounded and the party went in to lunch.
She put herself so that my arm came caressingly about her. "These are jolly furs," I said. "I got them for you." The parlourmaid appeared below dealing with the maid and the luggage cab. "Tell me all about America," said Margaret. "I feel as though you'd been away six year's."
"Fetch me that lantern out of the kitchen," he called to the parlourmaid. "Light it! Don't you be afraid, Lettie," he went on, turning to his daughter. "There's naught to be afraid of now. You gentlemen coming with us?" Bent and Brereton had already got into their coats: when the maid came with the lantern, all four men went out.
Let me enjoy the anti- cyclone while it lasts and I'll give you your tea." But of that tea Dominic Iglesias was fated not to drink. A ring at the bell, a parley at the front door, followed by the advent of an elderly parlourmaid bearing a card on a small lacquer tray. "His lordship says if you're engaged he could wait a little, ma'am. But he wants particularly to see you to-day."
He hurried his steps and was just in sight of his study window, when he was met by his parlourmaid, a neat, trim young woman who rejoiced in the euphonious name of Hester Rockett, and who said as she approached him: "If you please, sir, Mrs. Spruce." His genial face fell a little, and he heaved a short sigh. "Mrs. Spruce? Oh, Lord! I mean, very well! Show her in, Hester.
And his reflections embraced Lois upstairs, and the two colleagues of the parlourmaid in the kitchen, and the endless apparatus of the house, and the people at his office and the apparatus there, and the experiences that awaited him on the morrow, and all his responsibilities, and all his apprehensions for the future.
"Take Inspector Mitchington into the study," he said. "Is he alone?" "No, sir there's a gentleman with him," replied the girl. "All right I'll be with them presently," answered Ransford. "Take them both in there and light the gas. Police!" he went on, when the parlourmaid had gone. "They get hold of the first idea that strikes them, and never even look round for another, You're not frightened?"
Harris who resides in a small West Country town, the name of which does not concern us was seated in his library reading, when his parlourmaid brought him a card "Mr. Wilkins, I.T.S. Egeria." "I scarcely hoped that you would remember me, sir," began the Schoolmaster, on being introduced.
In a few moments her supper would be brought in by her pleasant-faced, rosy-cheeked parlourmaid. Enid Crofton was dainty and particular as to her food. The bad cooking she had had to endure during those miserable months she had spent in Essex, after her husband had been demobilised, had proved a very real addition to her other troubles.
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