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William Doane's Romance: A New England Story

... the chambers. After the old people had gone the son, William's father, used the whole house, but the kitchen partition remained. Indeed each kitchen, although only half of the original, was a large room. It was the half with the south-west exposure which ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4480 | Page: 16 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

LADY HELP

... was clearing away the remains of her frugal supper when the bell rang. Hastily she thrust the tray and her apron into the kitchen and shut the door. She gave a glance round her sitting- room, lit the gas-fire, turned on two more lights, pulled the photo ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1825 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

AN UNACCOUNTABLE DREAM

... said, Come and I will let you see over my little apartment you can understand my astonishment when we came to look at the kitchen, because it was exactly the one I had dreamt about. I asked her to ask me to find something, and quite puzzled, she said, ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1927
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 46 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... purchased a 4-lb. sirloin. They left it on the kitchen-table while they went into the dining-room for a couple of cocktails. The couple grew into more and they were slightly rocky when they re-entered the kitchen, but not rocky enough to overlook the fact ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 450 | Page: 21 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

DARK SPECTRE

... got it on her hands I told her not to keep it in the kitchen, he protested. It 's under the sink. I can show you. I 'd like to see it. When they got to the house Mason took him round to the kitchen door. His hand was shaking and his throat was dry. He ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

OH, COME NOW, MR. HALLABY!

... nightmare. But when, half-way up the stairs, he saw the kitchen door open slowly to its full extent, and close again, his belief came in for a sharp revision. Once again he rubbed his eyes. Once again the kitchen door opened and closed itself. Mr. Hallaby, aided ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1773 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

. . . AS GOOD AS A FEAST

... course, appears before his audience in a white chef's cap, or apron, or overall. Those are reserved for the sanctity of his kitchen, where he performs miracles with one old razor-blade and a wooden spoon and fork. No. Before his audience M. Nicholas wears ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1579 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE AMBLERS: A ROMANCE OF THEATRICAL LIFE: HOW THE PANTOMIME ENDED

... Creeping down to the kitchen as noiselessly as she had crept from it she would kneel in prayer for hours, hushing her sobs so that no one should know, and sometimes would fall asleep as she prayed. Daddies slept in a little room off the kitchen and was usually ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2951 | Page: 18 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE BEADLE'S SERMON

... desire and fear were uppermost, welded together by grim, determination. He went softly along the garden path round to the kitchen window. When opposite this he shouted, 'Leezbeth. Aye, I'm no deaf. It's a' richt, He turned to: fly, but 'Leezbeth was ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1911
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2861 | Page: 12 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

CROOKS AND STEEL BRACELETS: IV.--THE WEIGHT OF GUILT

... back into the kitchen find do your work. Mrs. Cing eyed him resignedly. She asked herself sourly why she had let her self hope that Cing would be kind to-day after his having been only unkind to her for twenty-one years. In the kitchen she slowly resumed ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3667 | Page: 72 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Bubble and Squeak: Stories from Everywhere

... inspect a peasant's cottage in Ireland. Do you think, he said, sternly, that it is healthy to have a pig living in your kitchen? The woman in the cottage bridled. Sure, yer honour, he's niver had a day's illness since he came into the house. TAne of ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

SOME SOCIAL CHANGES WHICH I HAVE SEEN

... afternoon to the home farm or the kitchen garden and, of course, it entails an enormous amount of labour for the servants. Maids and valets spend the week end in a whirl of packing and unpacking, and the whole staff of the kitchen is continu ously employed. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1594 | Page: 12 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative