It was therefore an old invalid housemaid who opened the door to him.
Does a "Clergyman's Wife" suppose that the British housemaid is exempt from this little weakness common to her race?
He told the housemaid who admitted him to show the way to Miss Halliday's room.
Valentine Hawkehurst came many times in the day, but between him and Mr. Sheldon there could be no safe meeting; and the lover came quietly to the little gate, where a kindlyhousemaid gave him a little note from Diana Paget.
The housemaid ran off to summon Miss Paget; and in less than five minutes Diana appeared, dressed in her hat and garden jacket.
He did everything with such a will that both she and the housemaid were always ready to spare and help him.
But the King said 'No,' and she had better take a housemaid or two with brooms and dusters.
Next morning Harry got up in good time, folded up his nightshirt, and made his room so tidy that the housemaid nearly had a surprise-fit when she went in.
I read on the authority of Senex Senior that your Majesty was seen dancing with your Second Housemaid on the Oriental Platform of the Tivoli Gardens.
Great Heavens, what would she say if the Second Housemaid business happened to meet her pure blue eye!
Mr. Porne took an afternoon off and came with his wife to hear their former housemaid lecture.
Janey with Anne the housemaid to help her could manage perfectly well, whatever the doctor might say.
Annette guided Mrs. Nicholls and Mrs. Cocks and the timid under-housemaid from the Dower House from circling round the note to the note itself.
Roger informed her of the reprehensible and entirely un-British manner in which luggage was arranged for at that metropolis, and of the price of the cabs and the system of pourboires, and how the housemaid at the hotel had been a man.
As soon as the housemaid has taken up the family breakfast, she, the housemaid, must begin the bedrooms, where the second scullery-maid may help her as soon as she has done helping the cook.
She played on and waited patiently, till the housemaid expelled her into the dewy air.
One is said to have been a housemaid of the Prophet; the second was a housemaid whose kunniat (patronymic) is given as Omm Rabab (mother of Rabab).
Alora had lived so long abroad that she did not know what a competent American housemaid is.
And there is a servant besides myself, my niece Leona, who is housemaid and assists the young lady.
My housemaid and kitchenmaid will go to their friends in the country; the cook will look after the house; and her nephew, the little page, is almost as fond of the cat as I am.
Or perhaps," the housemaid added, "she means to give the mistress notice to leave.
Teresa had heard the housemaid called by her name: she knew who Matilda was.
The pretty housemaid had stood the candle on the floor; as it gave a very dim light, Sam was obliged to go down on his knees before he could see whether it really was his own hat or not.
Now, there was nobody in the kitchen but the pretty housemaid; and as Sam's hat was mislaid, he had to look for it; and the pretty housemaid lighted him.
Here the cook began to cry, and the housemaid said it was "a shame!
When the little housemaid came to him in the morning and evening, Prince Giglio used to say, "Betsinda, Betsinda, how is the Princess Angelica?
So she lay and writhed on the red-hot griddle of her anguished recollection, until a neat housemaidknocked at the door and brought her morning tea.
I have seen nice girls since I came home reading things in public which I would not leave about in the smoking-room for fear the housemaid might be shocked.
After that I gave myself up to rising as high as a housemaid can rise until I married Mr. Worfolk.
Well, after I left them I took a situation as upper housemaid with a very nice family in the county of Unts, and who came up to London for the season to Grosvenor Gardens.
Adelaide was soon satisfied, and soon, also, her flippant tongue had disseminated this view of the case all over the parish; for Adelaide would talk to the housemaid when no better listener was to be had.
Sarah Leigh was a year or two older than her husband, and had been an under-housemaid at the Grange, the family seat of Squire Wiseman, who was the greatest man of the parish, and lord of the manor.
Now, Mrs. Wyburn, take great care of yourself, and I do hope you'll get a nice housemaid quite soon.
I was housemaid at Lady Leven's then, an' he and his father were old friends of ourn.
You were away in Australia at the time, but I kept a watch on Lydia in your interest, dear, and our housemaid heard from your housemaid the most dreadful things.
It is usual also for her to fill the copper; and for the housemaid to sort the clothes ready for the wash.
Where no man-servant is kept, the cook or housemaid must clean the shoes and boots.
It is the duty of the cookmaid to prepare the breakfast; and that of the housemaid to carry it up to the breakfast-parlor.
As soon as the housemaid appears in the morning, Nina asks her to come into the room; the money is put into an envelope for Mrs. Grey; the not great luggage is taken quiet down the stair, so that no one is disturbed.
