... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LUCY A SKETCH. BY II. T. FARRANT. A wide, low-raftered kitchen, lit only by the dancing light from the big logs burning on the hearth. In the far corner, behind the high-backed settle, a tall clock ticked solemnly in the deep-brown shadow. Else where ...

... 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 ...

... as usual Breathless, with her bed-room door ajar, she listened heard the back window opened, marked the footfall in the kitchen. Beneath was the usual preparation a lamp turned low, a hot meal put by, plate and glass, knife and fork, and a few words ...

... small, pleasant rooms behind the iron balconies and delicate fanlights, and smart young couples, in love with the comfortable kitchens and little front and back gardens, invaded the Square and enhanced its reputation. When the industrial depression affected ...

... the cook, who had been with her for fifteen years the housemaid with glasses (Mrs. Denniston had had her for ten), and the kitchen-maid, a more recent importation, a young girl recommended by the vicar's wife. Three, for one old woman and a nurse. Of late ...

... you '11 come downstairs, said Bertram Lane. Downstairs be hanged said Garthorne. I don't want to see the kitchen-maid. My mother was a kitchen-maid once but I always tell people that she was an Austrian baroness. They swallow everything I like to tell ...

... HOME By B. L. JACOT. HE came down the stairs slowly, his mind a thousand miles away, and he heard the dog scratching at the kitchen door. The dachshund shot through his legs as he opened the door, and he saw that the kettle was spitting furiously. Something ...

... beings without were trying to force a way in. Whitewash fell in scales from the big tie-beams and cross-rafters of the farm- kitchen, and lay in little powdery drifts of whiteness on the solid table of brown locust-tree wood, and my father's Dutch Bible that ...