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MODERN MONASTIC LIFE IN ENGLAND

... English style, and include, in addition to the church, a cloister, chapter house, refectory, dormitory, guest-house, lavatory, kitchen, offices, &c., with massive walls and buttresses^ jpng' and narrow windows, high gables and roofs, with deeply arched doorways ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1872
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1427 | Page: 15 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE VILLAGE SURGEON: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... just out of curiosity, whether she heard the night -bell ring. She said she had not. I made no further remark. As for the kitchen-maid she sleeps like the Seven Sleepers all combined, to judge from the scolding 1 hear at her bedroom door every morning ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 7763 | Page: 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE VILLAGE SURGEON: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... innocence At this summons the two female servants, with faces indicating the utmost astonishment and curiosity, came up the kitchen- stairs. Now then, doctor, proceeded Mr. Judd, if you're a man, come into master's study, and say before his face what you've ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6636 | Page: 19 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE VILLAGE SURGEON: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... I'd better be off, sir, for here he comes. As Drury spoke there was a loud knock at the door. I bade him go through the kitchen, and then myself opened the door to Mr. Montague Hartland. Good evening, doctor, he began if it is not taking too great ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6650 | Page: 11 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE VILLAGE SURGEON: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... wife would not cost more than Mrs. Trippett, and if Margaret Hartland loved a man, she would do anything for him scrub the kitchen floor,, if necessary. Nous verrons. I had intended writing a letter to Nettlefold, giving a full and true account of my a ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5627 | Page: 11 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

An Odd Couple

... to see her friends I go with her, and they all say it is nice of me not to be proud. They are going to have a party in the kitchen to-night. It is such fun. They have tea, and then they dance, and then they have supper, and nurse says if I am good I may ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1875
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 46794 | Page: 53 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Cripps the Carrier: MASCULINE ERROR

... occupant. It was not even the principal meal house, or the best treasury of wash. Itwas not the kitchen of the tasteful pigs, or even their back-kitchen, but something combining the qualities of their scullery and dust-bin. But the floor was clean, and ...

Cripps the Carrier: CRIPPS BRINGS HOME THE CROWN

... with ungainly skill, and needless cautions to his horse (who stood like a rock), descended. Then he walked into the Squire's kitchen, with whip in hand, as usual, as if he were come to deliver goods. The fat cook now was sitting calmly by the fire meditating ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1876
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3768 | Page: 10 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

HEATHERTHORP: A SPORTING STORY

... Miss Priscilla Cardmums, who is, by-the-by, rising forty, collector and treasurer to the dispensary, manager of the soup kitchen, and the Lord knows what besides Well, interrupted Crisp. Oh nothing, rejoined Essom, with a comic air of assumed indifference ...

HEATHERTHORP: A SPORTING STORY

... Priscilla. She, most long-suffering of district visitors, most patient of Sunday-school teachers, and most perse vering of soup-kitchen treasurers, was seized with an ailment not directly attributable to tight lacing, low living, or the weather. It is not exactly ...