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One day, without consulting Legree, she suddenly took it upon her, with some considerable ostentation, to change all the furniture and appurtenances of the room to one at some considerable distance. The under-servants, who were called on to effect this movement, were running and bustling about with great zeal and confusion, when Legree returned from a ride.
I nearly died last week before I could get any one to bring me my afternoon chocolate. The men had all rushed off to a bull-baiting, and the women were romping or fighting in the laundry, except my own women, who are too genteel to play with the under-servants, and had taken a holiday to go and see a tragedy at Oxford. I found myself in a deserted house.
In the course of this I became interested in one for whom this ovation began to assume the proportions of a triumph; not only the under-servants, but the barmaid, the landlady, and my friend the postmaster himself, crowding about the steps to speed his departure.
An old grandmother, poorly clad she belonged to the working class was following one of the under-servants into the great empty throne-room, for this was the apartment she wanted to see that she was resolved to see; it had cost her many a little sacrifice, and many a coaxing word, to penetrate thus far.
The Duke went off without saying a word, and the corpse was neither opened nor embalmed. A few under-servants and workmen continued with the pestiferous remains, and paid the last duty to their master; the surgeons directed that spirits of wine should be poured into the coffin.
Cooper remarked to an audience of Hordle and Mary Fisher, reinforced by the Napoleonic Patch and his wife who happened to have looked in from the stables after supper some freedom of speech being permissible, thanks to the under-servants' relegation to the kitchen. "I never could see she was any class myself. But the airs and graces she'd give herself!
The butler stood in the hall ready to welcome the returning guests with stately ceremony; while the under-servants bustled about, attending to the wants of the mud-bespattered huntsmen. "Mr. Dale is at home, I suppose?" Douglas said, as he warmed his hands before the great wood fire. "At home, sir!" replied the butler; "hasn't he come home with you, sir?" "No; we never saw him after the meet.
The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.
The Duke went off without saying a word, and the corpse was neither opened nor embalmed. A few under-servants and workmen continued with the pestiferous remains, and paid the last duty to their master; the surgeons directed that spirits of wine should be poured into the coffin.
When you have chosen one of these under-servants to wait upon you, I shall order the room to be cleared. 'Thank you very much, Sir Walter, said the princess, and her eye glanced towards a rosy-cheeked girl who had lately come to the house as a scullery-maid.
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