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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Lady-day!" said George, uneasily, "Confound Lady-day, and every day of the sort there, don't you be so spiteful, old man why if he isn't all of a tremble. Poor old man." He went to his own door, and called "Sarah!" A stout servant-girl answered the summons.
It was usual for him to take all new-comers under his wing, and with officious good-nature endeavour to make them feel at home. He called on us daily, tied his horse to the paling fence beneath the shade of a sallie-tree in the backyard, and when mother was unable to see him he was content to yarn for an hour or two with Jane Haizelip, our servant-girl.
The peasants are all right; their hatred against the abbe keeps up; but we can do nothing as yet. He's like Michaud, in his way; such men are too good for this world, God ought to call them to himself." "It would be a good plan to find some pretty servant-girl to scrub his staircase," remarked Madame Soudry.
The servant-girl sat inside with us simply sat in the sitting-room, and was not in the kitchen at all; so that the lamp up there was not even lit. And I stood and thought over this, but said no more. Suddenly the girl remarked to me: "I thought I saw you come out of the palace a while ago; were you at a dinner party?" and she laughed loudly at this jest.
Large, protruding eyes and an opulent bust complete a presentment of the typical household drudge "a servant-girl in a German inn." But Peter the Great, who was ever abnormal in all his tastes and appetites, was always more ready to make love to a woman of the people than to the most beautiful and refined of his Court ladies.
When the reading was ended, and my wife had dried her eyes, she turned to me and said, "This story will make your fortune. There has been nothing so pathetic since Lamartine's 'History of a Servant-girl." As soon as possible the next day I sent my story to the editor of the periodical for which I wrote most frequently, and in which my best productions generally appeared.
And I'll further write an I.O.U., and entrust it to you, and when that time does come, I'll pay you in full." "That will do!" answered the Taoist matron, Ma. Mrs. Chao thereupon dismissed even a young servant-girl, who happened to be in the room, and hastily opening a trunk, she produced several articles of clothing and jewelry, as well as a few odd pieces of silver from her own pocket-money.
Millar's servant-girl came running down to say her mistress wanted to know if we could hear anything yet. 'No, my grandfather said, 'nothing yet, my lass; but it can't be long now. 'Missis is so poorly, said the girl; 'I think she's got a cold: she shakes all over, and she keeps fretting so. 'Poor soul! well, perhaps it's better so. 'Whatever do you mean, grandfather? I asked.
Pettifer's, but found, to her great disappointment, that her old friend was gone out for the day. So she wrote on a leaf of her pocket-book an urgent request that Mrs. Pettifer would come and stay with her while her mother was away; and, desiring the servant-girl to give it to her mistress as soon as she came home, walked on to the Vicarage to sit with Mrs.
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