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Updated: June 1, 2025
During this time soup of fishes' fins and wine are served to the bride's ladies-in-waiting and to the serving-women. They are served with a single wine-cup of earthenware, placed upon a small square tray, and this again is set upon a long tray, and a wine-kettle with all sorts of condiments is brought from the kitchen.
All the gentlemen, young and old, all the keepers and verdurers, were put in requisition to slaughter all the game, quadruped and biped, that fell in their way, the village women and children were turned loose on the blackberries, cranberries, and bilberries, and all the ladies and serving-women were called on to concoct pasties of many stories high, subtilties of wonderful curiosity, sweetmeats and comfits, cakes and marchpanes worthy of Camacho's wedding, or to deck the halls with green boughs, and weave garlands of heather and red berries.
"The damsel is not so comely as I expected to find her," observed Amice Lovekyn, one of the serving-women, to Hector Cutbeard, the clerk of the kitchen. "Why, if you come to that, she is not to be compared to you, pretty Amice," said Cutbeard, who was a red-nosed, red-faced fellow, with a twinkling merry eye. "Nay, I meant not that," replied Amice, retreating.
Yes all the world has a right to be as hideous as it can. And I have no right but to suffer and to choke in my rage. Three vile, ignorant serving-women! Serving-women ah yes, and if they were my servants! If I could pay them! But who serves me! Of what consequence am I! These things goad me, they are like poisoned thorns in my flesh. The infinite degradation of it all, the shame, the outrage!
To these belonged the frowzy serving-women; to these the rows of ash-barrels, in which the decrepit children and mothers of the streets were clawing for bits of coal. By the time Basil and Isabel reached Broadway there were already some omnibuses beginning their long day's travel up and down the handsome, tiresome length of that avenue; but for the most part it was empty.
And now thou must hence, for presently the serving-women will come to seek me. Guard thyself, Eric, as thou lovest me guard thyself, and beware of Swanhild!" Then once more they kissed soft and long, and Eric went. But Gudruda sat a while behind the screen of reeds, and was very happy for a space. For it was as though the winter were past and summer shone upon her heart again.
In addition to this there was a smaller ward for women, a chapel, a kitchen, and a room for the matron, as well as accommodation for the resident doctor, Maître Robert, and the serving-women.
Then followed the servants, the cook with his scullions, the shoemaker who could also do necessary repairs to the harness, the laundress riding astride as was the manner of serving-women, and a score of lackeys and dependants of all sorts in charge of the carts containing the necessaries of travel.
By what achievements did you prove the qualities of a page, which you had thus happily acquired?" Roland, who began to enter into the tone and spirit of the damsel's conversation, replied to her with becoming spirit. "In no feat, fair gentlewoman, was I found inexpert, wherein there was mischief implied. I shot swans, hunted cats, frightened serving-women, chased the deer, and robbed the orchard.
Roland stooped, and before she knew what he was about, took Hilda in his arms, lifted her ashore, and laid her carefully on the grass. "Come," he cried to the newly-awakened serving-women, "tumble out of that without further delay," and they obeyed him in haste.
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