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'If you were with me, dear, you would have none of these annoyances, she said, pleading forlornly. Diana smiled to herself. 'No! I should relapse into softness. This life exactly suits my present temper. My landlady is respectful and attentive; the little housemaid is a willing slave; Danvers does not despise them pugnaciously; they make a home for me, and I am learning daily.
Their furniture was all left behind; and in its stead went some of neat light painted wood, which looked to Fleda deliciously countrified. A promising cook and housemaid were engaged to go with them to the wilds, and about the first of April they turned their backs upon the city.
Down the hill, along the well-known paling, past the cottages, the dear old faces smiling welcome; the Church, always the same, the green rail of the Vicarage garden, the paint was the only thing new; the porch, with roses hanging thicker over it than ever; Ranger, David Chapple, Jane, the housemaid, all in ecstasy in their different ways.
"But I entreat you," said Charles, "to tell me what you think I mean, for I am sure you surprise me now as much as I did you." Again Charles burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, exclaiming "Housemaid! admirable! upon my word, Ellen, you have found a personage in the old king's establishment Homer never thought of." "I never read Homer," said Ellen, simply.
But I think she was something like the housemaid who "did the bedrooms," and who complained bitterly of the additional trouble given by Leo and me when we were at Dacrefield, and who was equally pathetic about the dulness of the Hall when we returned to school. "The young gentlemen be a deal of trouble, but they do keep a bit of life in the place, sure enough."
Having arranged for a lease of twelve years, John Forster returned to his chambers. "Scratton," said he, "look out for a man-servant, a cook, housemaid, and a steady woman, as housekeeper good characters, and undeniable reference.
My dear ladies you may bind me hand and leg, or lock me up in a closet, if you like. Only hear what I have got to say only hear me. 'How did you come in our garden? faltered the housemaid. 'Call the lady of the house, and I'll tell her everything, said Mr. Pickwick, exerting his lungs to the utmost pitch. 'Call her only be quiet, and call her, and you shall hear everything.
We walk across our passages on the mats made from its fibre. We sweep our rooms with its brushes, and wipe our feet on it as we enter our doors. As rope, it ties up our trunks and packages; in the hands of the housemaid it scrubs our floors; or else, woven into coarse cloth, it acts as a covering for bales and furniture sent by rail or steamboat.
Eliot, Mom Beck, and the housemaid entered in solemn file, each bearing a tray containing a simple lunch, in the centre of which was a fancy plate containing a pile of crisp green lettuce. "Isn't that a dainty dish to set before the king!" exclaimed Joyce, examining her conundrum salad. "Oh, girls, how that did fool me.
I shut him into the tonneau, and took a seat beside my chauffeur. "Let her out, James," I said. James let her out with a vengeance. There was a sunny-haired housemaid at the Van Coorts' . . . and it was a crack, new four-cylinder car with a direct drive on the top speed. Off we went like the wind, jouncing poor Jones around the tonneau like a pea in a pill-box. But he didn't care.
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