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Updated: June 8, 2025
""I am my lady's waiting-woman," said she, "and ready to reward you with my own person if you show yourself gallant and helpful in our necessities." ""Gladly," said I, seeing that I was inevitably started on a perilous adventure. "'Under favor of the darkness, I felt whether the person and figure of the girl were in keeping with the idea I had formed of her from her tone of voice.
She was obeyed; and the Italian waiting-woman no sooner perceived De Vitry advancing below the apartments of her royal mistress than she inquired of him what had occurred. "The Maréchal d'Ancre has been shot," was his abrupt reply. "Shot!" echoed Caterina; "and by whom?" "By myself," said De Vitry composedly; "and by the command of the King."
There will be a learned young divine with some new doctrine a learned leech with some new drug a bold cavalier, who will not be refused the favour of wearing her colours at a running at the ring a cunning harper that could harp the heart out of woman's breast, as they say Signer David Rizzio did to our poor Queen; these are the sort of folk who supply the loss of a well-favoured favourite, and not an old steward, or a middle-aged waiting-woman."
"Damme, if I know what he hath a stomach for," Sir John grumbled, and kicked at the burning logs. "He don't eat no more than an old woman, nor drink so much as a young miss. Ain't the half-hour gone, Charles?" "That's a poetic phrase, sir. It means a year or so while she's tiring her hair." "What and painting her face, too? Same as Jezebel." My lady's waiting-woman, Arabella, came in.
The three- legged stool of the old waiting-woman 'toppled down headlong' as though by the hands of Puck, and even on Anne's arms certain black and blue marks of nails were discovered, and when her mother examined her on them she only cried and begged not to be made to answer. And while Dr. Woodford was dozing in his chair as usual after the noonday dinner Mrs.
The floor was covered with a Persian carpet, the richness of which proved the gallantry of the count; on the upper step of the bed stood a little table, on which the waiting-woman served every night in a gold or silver cup a drink prepared with spices. After we have gone some way in life we know the secret influence exerted by places on the condition of the soul.
I've a notion she had; a kind of waiting-woman to Madam Starkey. 'Please your worship, said humbled Dickon, 'Mistress Bridget had a daughter one Mistress Mary who went abroad, and has never been heard on since; and folk do say that has crazed her mother. Mr. Gisborne shaded his eyes with his hand. 'I could wish she had not cursed me, he muttered.
Tusher, the parson's wife, was with my lady. She had been waiting-woman to her ladyship in the late lord's time, and, having her soul in that business, took naturally to it when the Viscountess of Castlewood returned to inhabit her father's house. "I present to your ladyship your kinsman and little page of honor, Master Henry Esmond," Mr. Holt said, bowing lowly, with a sort of comical humility.
Meanwhile I have already seen that infamous waiting-woman, and taken care to prevent any danger from her garrulity. And you will be pleased to hear that I have hit upon a mode of satisfying the curiosity of our friend Mrs. Grundy that is,'the World' without injury to any one.
Meat and drink for the seven years were carried into the tower, and then she and her waiting-woman were led into it and walled up, and thus cut off from the sky and from the earth. There they sat in the darkness, and knew not when day or night began. The King's son often went round and round the tower, and called their names, but no sound from without pierced through the thick walls.
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