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Updated: June 11, 2025
But where is Mr. Jennings? that was the continued cry for four agonizing hours of dread and difficulty. Sarah, the still-room maid, was sitting at her work, unluckily in Mrs. Quarles's room; she had come in shortly after Simon's secret entry; there she sat, and he dared not stir.
She tried in many ways to make up the loss, and her devotion went to her uncle's heart. If they could only hear! Not to know where he was seemed so hard to bear. Doris was in the little still-room, as it was called a large sort of pantry shelved on one side, and with numerous drawers and a kind of dresser with glass doors on another.
As if he had himself compounded both his own blood and his boy's in the still-room of creation, he took all the credit of Richard's savoir faire, as he counted it. He did not know that the same thing made Wingfold happy and Richard a gentleman! Richard had had a higher breeding than was known to sir Wilton.
In the presence of these Commissioners, of whom the Lord Blantyre was president, the young lady flatly accused one Janet Burns, her mother's still-room maid, of tormenting her with aid of the black art, and for witness showed her back and shoulders covered with wales, some blue and others freshly bleeding; and further, in the midst of their interrogatories cast herself into a trance, muttering and offering faint combat to divers unseen spirits, and all in so lifelike a manner that, notwithstanding they could discover no evident proof of guilt, these wise gentry were overawed and did commit the woman Janet Burns to take her trial for witchcraft at Paisley.
She did the same by Hollands cloth, and made coarse strong lace, with which all my lady's napkins and table-linen were trimmed. We worked under her during a great part of the day, either in the still-room, or at our sewing in a chamber that opened out of the great hall. My lady despised every kind of work that would now be called Fancy-work.
An' Mis' Doctor Helman did have one o' her stomach attacks this week, an' Elzabella got out her dyin' dishes an' her dyin' linen from the still-room you know how Mis' Doctor always brings out her nice things when she's sick, so't if she should die an' the neighbours come in, it'd all be shipshape. But she got better this time an' helped put 'em back.
Sir Bale stared at her sternly for some seconds. "Gome, now, do be distinct," said Sir Bale; "what has happened?" "He's lying on the sofer in the old still-room. You never saw my God! O, sir what is life?" "D n it, can't you cry by-and-by, and tell me what's the matter now?" "A bit o' fire there, as luck would have it; but what is hot or cold now?
The king commands the first lord in waiting to desire the second lord to intimate to the gentleman usher to request the page of the ante-chamber to entreat the groom of the stairs to implore John to ask the captain of the buttons to desire the maid of the still-room to beg the housekeeper to give out a few more lumps of sugar, as his Majesty has none for his coffee, which probably is getting cold during the negotiation.
"I have taken a chill," said Mary, doggedly. "Go instantly to the still-room maid, and get a large glass of spirits and hot water quite hot." Mary, who wanted to be out of the room, fastened her mistress's back hair with dogged patience, and then moved toward the door. "Mary," said Lady Bassett, in a half-apologetic tone. "My lady." "I should like to hear what the bride is like."
Helen improved, as she fancied, the arrangement of a few green-house flowers in an ugly vase on the table. At length the butler appeared, the curate took Mrs. Ramshorn, and the cousins followed making, in the judgment of the butler as he stood in the hall, and the housekeeper as she peeped from the baise-covered door that led to the still-room, as handsome a couple as mortal eyes need wish to see.
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