Is that the very gentleman," asked Mrs Rose, "that did marry with the great heir, Mistress Robsart?
To the hands of my right worthy Mistress and most singular dear friend, Mistress Avery, dwelling at the sign of the Lamb in the Minories, without Aldgate, by London, give these.
When shall my mistress your friend be wed, Mrs Avery?
Ursula and Barbara, both of whom had been with their mistress ever since her marriage, replied that they would go with her now.
Mistress Rose entreated her guests to stay for four-hours, when she hoped Mr Rose would be at home; but Isoult was somewhat afraid of losing her way in the dark, and declined.
I lean to Mistress Avery's thought that there is no man for the time; but I do partly share your opinion, in that methinks there may be a woman.
It was not yet dinner-time on the following morning, when Barbara came up-stairs to tell her mistress that Mrs Helen Ive wished to see her.
Isoult, dost thou mean to call memistress all the days of thy life?
And I'm thinkin', begging your pardon, Mistress Katrine, there was a lady to be explained away in his case.
Ye see, Mistress Katrine, the ladies like a little exaggeration.
The giggle proved that the master was out, that the young mistress had not yet established a definite position, and that during recent weeks the old mistress must have been steadily dissipating her own authority.
Among the staff was a mistress who was known as Miss Miranda--she seemed to have no surname.
On the other hand, she was by no means sufficiently mistress of herself to be able to hide from him her shame.
Afterwards the mistress recounted this judgment to Florrie, who was thereby apparently much impressed and encouraged in well-doing.
Florrie was looking up at her mistress with respectful, strained attention.
But to Florrie the young mistress with her stern dark mask and formidable eyebrows and air of superb disdain was as august as a goddess.
Florrie, however, easily kept her countenance, and with a pert smile took the hand which her former mistress graciously extended.
Florrie had certainly heard nothing of her young mistress since the door-bang which had signalled her departure for the office.
Suddenly, she blushed in confusion before the mistress of the home.
At this point Malham's hard face would soften into the tender, humorous smile which was reserved for but one person on earth--for Celia Bevan, a high school mistress to whom he had been engaged for five long years.
The men of the family were out, and two minutes before the maid had announced "Mrs Wright from the District," and "Could the mistress possibly see her?
She had barely time to compose herself before the door opened, and the mistress of the house made her appearance.
The Baron said he had no doubt that it was a trick on the part of the servant maid, between whom and her mistress there had been some dispute a few days since.
He charged me with having given some stuff to my mistress to make her sick.
The Baron used often to call on Mr. Anderton, to see the doctor, but, so far as I know, he only saw the mistress once.
My mistress was very tall and stout, and Madame R** was small and thin.
How ever Mr. Anderton kept up the way he did, I cannot think or say, but he broke down altogether when the mistress died.
My mistress would have kept me on, but master said, No.
I thought my mistress would not think of looking there.
Mr. Andrews wanted to take the law of me, but my mistresswould not let him.
But seven months ago my mistress died, and her daughters wouldn't keep me, because I had become weak and couldn't do the work of their house as well as I used to do it.
He wanted an excuse to visit Tralee and see its mistress with his own eyes.
Ye are your ain mistress now, and can do as you please without asking my leave.
They did not need her as mistress of the house, and she believed that her influence over them would be more decided and salutary should she remain in her own house.
I am going to be a schoolmistress,--not a governess, not a teacher in a school merely, but the mistress of a school.
Ye ken her daughter Annie went south last year, and her mistress promised to see her mother, when she came north, and would like to hear o' her.
She was mistress and housekeeper, and gave her mind to her duties as she had not done at first.
But Jean had long ago sent word to Nannie that hermistress was to stay at Saughleas for the night.
A great trouble this accumulation became to housemaids, and even to the young mistress of the house, who could not always trust the dusting and keeping them in order to unaccustomed hands.
By the time Phemie came to announce the stranger's arrival, the stately young mistress of the house was ready in her pretty house dress of some dim purple stuff to go down and receive him.
Both George and Marion think that I should be the mistress of Saughleas, while I am there.
Some idea of the estimation in which she was then held is proved by Allan Cunningham's dictum that 'Mary Howitt has shown herself mistress of every string of the minstrel's lyre, save that which sounds of broil and bloodshed.
It is evident that Mrs. Botham and Sister Anna looked somewhat disapprovingly upon so much literary work for the mistress of a household, since we find Mary writing in eager defence of her chosen calling.
No household expenses were curtailed, and thirty native servants continued to cheat theirmistress and idle over their work.
Leila licked the prince's hand when he caressed her, and Leila's mistress was thereby convinced that her guest was a 'chosen vessel.
The shaft went home, and the music-mistress had no occasion to complain again.
It was just as the mistressof the mansion had come to this consoling conclusion, that the party from Hudson Square rang.
Speak, Mrs. Bloomfield, as frankly as you please, but leave me the mistress of my answers.
The deficiency is owing to an American accident," returned her cousin; "one of those calamities of which you are fated to experience many, as the mistress of an American household.
No one now remained but the party entrenched behind the smoke, and the mistress of the house.
Nanny now looked at her young mistress, then at the floor; at her young mistress again, and afterwards at a rocket that was sailing athwart the sky.
This grandfather was now dead, and Grace had been left with a very ample fortune, almost entirely the mistress of her own movements.
She is as guileless and as good a being as can be met with, and is much beloved by her excellent and amiable mistress who has repeatedly addressed me in her case.
She had many god-children, to one of whom (Mistress Eliza Acton) she gave L800 as a marriage portion.
Mistress Joyce Jeffries was the half-sister of Humphrey Coningsby, Esq.
Nearly coincident with the above, a horseman, with apparently his mistress seated behind him, on a pillion, entered Bristol at Lawford's Gate.
The story of how Josie Fifer came to be mistress of the cast-off robes of the firm of Hahn & Lohman is one of those stage tragedies that never have a public performance.
Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
Go bear this letter to my Lord of Lancaster; this to the Prince; this to the Earl of Westmoreland; and this to old Mistress Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I perceiv'd the first white hair of my chin.
Imprimis, he told me the person to whom he now desired to leave his all was Mistress Catharine Peyton.
Nay, dear Mistress Kate, I wish you too well to jest on such a theme.
Biddy and her mistress are two human beings, with the same human wants.
While I am mistress of your household, brother, I shall try to maintain its dignity and respectability.
But it rankled in him; and the very next day he took advantage of a little business he had to do in Mr. Peyton's neighborhood, and drove to Peyton Hall, and asked for Mistress Kate.
The house and the children are not hers; and why should she care more for their well-being than the mistress and the mother?
Mistress Kate," said he, "my wife and I are both your faithful friends and humble admirers.
But, Mistress Kate, now be frank with me; then I can serve you better.
At such times, the lady in an important household was mistressof large affairs.
Poor Mistress Osborne fell ill of the small-pox, and, though she escaped with life, lost all her beauty.
The relations of his mistress regarded him with personal dislike, and spoke of him as an unprincipled adventurer, without honour or religion, ready to render service to any party for the sake of preferment.
A councillor who was always bringing him papers and giving him advice, and who stoutly refused to compliment Lady Castlemaine and to carry messages to Mistress Stewart, soon became more hateful to him than ever Cromwell had been.
Pitt boasted that England was victorious at once in America, in India, and in Germany, the umpire of the Continent, the mistress of the sea.
Ephraim came into the hall to speak to his mistress just as Poppy came down the stairs.
Angela had become, meantime, almost sole mistress of the hens and the eggs.
The schwitzar replied that the youngmistress had returned to the house and had left again about a quarter of an hour later, taking the way that the party had gone on their promenade, and he had not seen her since.
Matrena Petrovna did as she was told, returned to the house, spoke to the schwitzar, who removed to the lodge with Ermolai, and their mistress closed the outside door.
Ermolai conducted his mistress to the drawing-room and pointed across to a door that he had left open, which led to the sitting-room before Natacha's chamber.
I wonder how far that is from the real truth," thought Georgiana to herself, as she watched the youngmistress of the place with fascinated eyes.
There was, to be sure, one small tier of towels, handed down from Georgiana's grandmother and carefully preserved against much using, of which any mistress of a linen press might be proud.
The summing-up of the perfect woman: And mistress of herself, though china fall, is itself perfect in its wit.
Out beyond the Golden Gate you will find your mistress and Aspar.
Tak yor niece oop, Reuben, an mak her behave'--the mistress of the house commanded angrily.
Hannah Grieve, the children's aunt, and mistress of the farm, thought it an offence to talk at meals.
He wants you, and I'm afraid he'll disturb mistress again.
Mary, gie your mistress her dinner, like a good gell.
