... prepared for action else it's no use. Then, look at the protection it is. Why, we've just built a fortified place close to the kitchen garden, where you could all retire to if we were attacked and, properly provisioned, we could hold out for almost any time ...

... prepared for action else it's no use, Then, look at the protection it is, Why, we've just built a fortified place close to the kitchen garden, where you could all retire to if we were attacked and, properly provisioned, we could hold out for almost any time ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... outweighing her mind, according to all true feminine proportions. She ran in SAviftly upon Susannah, sitting in the dusky kitchen and ponder ing over a very slow fire the cookery of the children's supper. These good young children never failed to go to ...

... occurred at the last moment to break off the negotiations. Yet this flat consisted, like all the others, of five rooms and a kitchen, with the front facing to the south, and was in every respect a most eligible suite. Well, that's good news, said Mr. Gripple ...

... up to the balustrade before he had finished. The lower windows of the Chateau were here barred and spiked, the windows of kitchen and cellars. Monsieur's room gave on to a marble balcony serving the western wing. I could just touch the parapet with my ...

... he had bought at a sale. But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals down stairs in the general dining-kitchen, with the dairyman and his wife, and the maids and men, who all together formed a lively assembly for though but few milking ...

... 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 ...

... grief and horror. At last she sobbed herself into a torpor, and I went and questioned the men who sat round the fire in the kitchen, for none sought their beds that night. From them I learned that an hour or more before I met the Spaniard, a richly dressed ...

... 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 ...

... stituted authority it was even said of him that by way of evidencing his convictions he had proposed to marry one of his own kitchen maids. But there was probably some exaggeration about those statements. It was certain, however, that while no fault could ...