... grandeur of her new position, and is always lamenting over the magnitude of the butcher's bill, and the sinful waste in her kitchen. And, last, and best of all, there is Mrs. Dulcimer, the vicar's wife, one of the most amusing specimens of the perfectly ...

... PUSH THIS END. I notice it is Jimmy Ellis who sits at the steering-wheel while the others push. at Six o'clock I answer the kitchen door to a nervous little knock and am con fronted by the Tadpole. Please Mrs. Reynolds may I have five-and-tuppence-ha'penny ...

... sandwiches, with White Rock bottles, and phonograph records, and cards. Who had won that last double-rubber, anyway? And in the kitchen more glasses were standing, dozens, with cigarettes drowned in their dregs; and the sink would be full of orange pulp, and ...

... troubled the late hours with hoarse laughs, with uncouth shouts like the barking of so many animals. The flat contained a kitchen, an alcove called a bed room, and a parlour. The two women from time to time engaged in timid efforts to decorate the place ...

... 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 ...

... Perhaps it's an awkward hour. Doesn't the boy step out well, John He reminds me, said the boy's father, of someone. Lord Kitchener, I think. The little chap, affecting not to have overheard these gratifying comments, increased the manliness of his stride ...

... time, though he and Pina talked together a good deal in the evenings over their late supper, in the little room next to the kitchen. The woman had interested the hunchback from the first, and when anyone roused his interest he pondered much upon that person's ...

... domestic affairs, said David. You must not take too much upon yourself. I will go down and speak about it, said Susan. To the kitchen she went, and entered so softly that she was not heard by the gipsy woman, who was on her knees, her face buried in her hands ...

... exhibiting with pride the astonishing bargains which she had picked up at auction sales. But when they did go down to the kitchen and his cap was taken off and a serviette fixed there was a meal that seemed to him worthy of Queen Victoria not below the ...

... 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 ...

... literary questions which you do not understand. You want to make a clean sweep Yes and talking about sweeps you'll have that kitchen chimney alight, and so I tell you. Why the girl can't get on for the soot falling. I sent her round to say Packham was to ...