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Mother did not come, and Anne said it was all nonsense about prayers. Auntie did always hear me my prayers." "Yes, dear, and so will I. There, kneel upon my lap and say them." In the middle of the prayers which Effie did not remember as well as she might have done the parlourmaid arrived again. "Please, sir, her ladyship "
Sutgrove, is it?" replied the voice, and upon my answering in the affirmative, the door was thrown open, and I saw the two maidservants standing in the hall. "I beg your pardon, sir," said the parlourmaid. "We didn't expect any one at this time of night." "That's all right," I answered. "Can I see Mr. Mannering?" "He's gone away for a day or two, sir," said the girl.
I think for that reason I have grown rather to resent his work and the ridiculous restriction he places upon my freedom because of it." A parlourmaid entered with tea, a few minutes later, and Granet moved to his hostess' side upon the sofa. He showed no more interest in outside happenings. He was an adept at light conversation and he made himself thoroughly agreeable for the next hour.
Beecher, who had the art of saying the most simple things as if they were profoundly confidential secrets, 'My dear, my parlourmaid is really an excellent cook, and I shall rely upon her if Martha really goes. But she is limited, very limited, and entrees and savouries are the two things in which I cannot entirely trust her. I must, therefore, find some dish which is well within her capacity.
I suppose he's been dropping a thousand or two as he did last year hullo!" As he stood by the window, he perceived the Hoopers' parlourmaid coming up Beaumont Street and looking at the numbers on the houses. He ran out to meet her, and took a note from her hand. "I will send or bring an answer. You needn't wait." He carried it into his own room, and locked the door before opening it. "Dear Mr.
"Does further action depend in any way on me?" asked Edmund at last, without, however, offering the explanation the other wanted. "No," said Murray quite civilly, but his manner was dry. "I don't see that it does. I think we can get on for the present." As he spoke the door opened, and the parlourmaid showed in a tall, handsome woman in a nurse's dress. Murray looked from her to Sir Edmund.
The letter's been delayed." "Who, Alroy?" demanded Mrs. Spatt earnestly. "Not that Miss Nickall you mentioned?" "Yes, my dove." And then in a grave tone to the parlourmaid: "Give this letter to your mistress." Mr.
I remember it well, because of two things. First, that Jem got five of the largest hips we had ever seen off a leafless dog-rose branch which stuck far out of the hedge, and picked the little green coronets off, so that they were smooth and glossy, and egg-shaped, and crimson on one side and yellow on the other; and then he got an empty chaffinch's nest close by and put the five hips into it, and took it home, and persuaded Alice our new parlourmaid that it was a robin redbreast's nest with eggs in it.
It had turned a corner and was out of sight by the time the parlourmaid, hearing the sound of the street door closing, had hurried upstairs only to find an empty studio.
The cook and the parlourmaid were old and trusted servants; the house and kitchen maids were respectable young women fitting themselves for promotion, and their service was given with the thoroughness and deference to which the Malletts were accustomed.
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