... who regarded L etty as a daughter, and whose ambition fed by her g-entility was centred upon her two children, had placed the maid in a very select seminary- the honest word school. was not genteel enougha seminary, therefore, situate in the suburbs of ...

... kisses. said, only needed the assurance that Ihe friend of her chlldhood was not indifferent to her. The child was a modest maid, and thought nothing of love and marriage; and so on and so forth-a madrigal I take credit to myself, because I remained profoundly ...

... pantry and store. Others advocate a small parlour with a larger kitchen, though the objections to this arrangement are that all the cooking, washing up, and work of the house have to be done in one room, as the parlour is practically never used and becomes ...

... of glass with a caustic and spiteful rhyme. Shenstone's oft-quoted lines, but as they were scratched on the window of the parlour at the Red Lion at H enley we reproduce them here for purposes of preservation: I Ay from pomp, I Ay (rom plate ! I Ay from ...

... loss of a national costume. Culinary demands now appear to give way to the arrangement of the cook's coiffure, while the parlour-maid perfunctorily polishes the silver lost in a reverie over the ravishments of a blouse, a fearful and cheap parody of mistress's ...

... of them in imagination, was assiduous in tending the house fires, and was commended for showin·• her consideration for the maids. In capel she had visions and dreams. Quite without the knowledge of her she was leading a separate elders she existence. ...

... recepnon billiard room ,fifteen best bed and clressmg rooms, t'tecl bathrooms maid ·ants' five{ rooms billiard room ,fifteen best bed and clressmg rooms, two fi t'tecl bathrooms eight maid sen ·ants' rooms, five{ rooms ::md complete range of offices. It is for ...

... bnt when he came home o:1 Sunday he heard a male voice in the area. It was the voice of the young man attached to the parlour-maid, and when the Colonel went below to investigate he found that J uliet, in her terror, had locked Romeo into the coal-cellar ...

... Beaufoy-Dixon, Eve's first employer, and Mannaduke, Mary's foolish brother. Marmaduke, with his platonic affect ion for parlour-maids, has not a redeeming feature; but Mrs. de Beaufoy-Dixon, who always insisted upon the hyphen because she wos remotely connec:ed ...

... Beaufoy-Dixon, Eve's first employer, and Mannaduke, Mary's foolish brother. Marmaduke, with his platonic affect ion for parlour-maids, has not a redeeming feature; but Mrs. de Beaufoy-Dixon, who always insisted upon the hyphen because she wos remotely connec:ed ...

... EDITOR OF COUI\TRY LIFE.] SrR,--I send you a photo· graph of a pet be- squirrel belongingto our maid. J-1 e runs 100 se in the pantry. One day he parlour- \\'(\S lost, and after being called for sume time, he popped his head and fore pa\\:s up from jug ...

... hand at Edward·s Court, and the king grew angry, for be loves a Norman as his Thus, for the maid'.; sake, she being stubborn, and own s ...