He was to get some clothes for me himself, and enlist the services of a chambermaid for my companion.
The Mermaid's garments had been placed by the thoughtful chambermaidin a little dressing-case.
The old chambermaid was not so certainly, nor so easily pleased, for she had no predominant passion but avarice, and was therefore cold and inaccessible.
They were a queer couple, but we have lots of queer couples at our house, and the most I notices, sir, is those what remember the chambermaid and those what don't.
She was consoled for this obstinacy on his part by the reflection that she would be taken for a chambermaid engaged in a love affair with a gentleman, and thought this delightful.
The chambermaid aroused them next morning as it was striking eight.
Felix, also quite calmly, asked Vera to excuse him, and told the chambermaid to get into the car and sit beside him.
And there was the chambermaid walking up the drive, quite calmly!
After lunch, however, Vera caught him transacting business with a chambermaid in a corridor.
As chambermaid or kitchen girl I can give my hand to whom I choose.
The chambermaid (a staid old lady of about fifty) did not think that anything better could be done for us by the hotel fraternity of Cologne, and seemed to think that the river was more what we wanted.
The chambermaid explains that there are two pillows on the bed already, indicating, as she does so, two flat cushions, each one a yard square, placed one on top of the other at one end of the mixture.
The chambermaidthinks he will be able to manage, if he tucks his legs up.
The chambermaid does not know how he is going to sleep there, never having seen a gentleman go to sleep anywhere, and not knowing how they set about it; but suggests that he might try lying down flat, and shutting his eyes.
How can a "genteel" chambermaid calmly contemplate such degradation, least of all perform such duties faithfully and well?
She had therefore to-day sent away all her domestics, except a chambermaid who loved her very much, and the fly on the wall who plagued her, and our Doctor who omitted one of the two things.
I, "my friend the head chambermaid takes it easy here.
When the head chambermaid came, it turned out, as good luck would have it, that Mr. Davager had drawn her attention rather too closely to his ugliness, by offering her testimony of his regard in the shape of a kiss.
The head chambermaid gave me a signal when the landing was clear.
Under any circumstances, I was certain of the head chambermaid; and under any circumstances, also, the head chambermaid was certain of Boots.
Andermatt opened it, and a chambermaid said to him: "Doctor Latonne would like to speak to Monsieur immediately.
Doubtless the chambermaid who had disappeared on Mainwaring's errand had already spread the news of our extraordinary story.
She was so absorbed in trying to get her husband to recognise her that she forgot my presence and that of the amazed chambermaid who, devoured with curiosity, lingered near.
We went upstairs, and the chambermaid conducted us to the door of No.
Celia's hat was faded and battered and out of shape; mine had been gray, but now it was no color at all, and without a particle of trimming, having given the ribbon to the colored chambermaid at Staunton.
A young chambermaid passed through the room, and Shiphrah stopped her long enough to introduce me and to command her to look after me as if I were one of the family--"even better.
The young lady's chambermaid loves money, and is of a speculative disposition.
Colot did not make his appearance, Madame Arnoux despatched herchambermaid for him.
He sent the chambermaid to look for his box of colours; then, having a chair under his feet and another by his side, he began to throw out great touches with as much complacency as if he had drawn them in accordance with the bust.
She chatted with him about her chambermaidand her hairdresser.
The chambermaid answered: "No; but come in all the same.
The chambermaidhurried to their assistance, and both boys were soon dressed.
These orders were carried out minutely, but at the first assault delivered by the tailor upon the woman, the onion was violently expelled and struck the chambermaid with such force that she was killed outright!
Bristol, you know, the first chambermaid had a benefit like her betters.
When I was three years younger than you, I was firstchambermaid in the Theatre Royal, Bristol.
The chambermaid is ugly, yet let her not want for a crown to console her at our departure.
Last night, I give you my honour, I heard every one of the confounded hurs toll, except the last, when I was dreaming of my father, and the chambermaid woke me with a hot water jug.
In order to this, she had provided herself with a long and deadly instrument, with which, in times of peace, the chambermaid was wont to demolish the labours of the industrious spider.
Only Susan Chambermaid was now stirring, she being obliged to wash the kitchen before she retired to the arms of the fond expecting hostler.
Victory must now have fallen to the side of the travellers (for the bravest troops must yield to numbers) had not Susan the chambermaid come luckily to support her mistress.
As I strolled back to my own room a chambermaid met me, with a bunch of keys in her hand, and she went directly to Mr. Wesson's apartment.
The chambermaid came to say that "Miss Carney" would like to see me after a short time had passed.
She rang the bell, and continued to ring it until the chambermaid came to help her.
At the hotel, as she passed his room, the door stood open, and she saw the chambermaid with brush and broom making its emptiness neat and clean for another lodger.
A sleepy-looking chambermaid handed her a note, which was marked "Urgent" on the envelope.
Nothing was wanting to universal joy but a chambermaid who should have only understood as much French as a hunting-dog.
Meanwhile Liana heard her very cultivated, well-read chambermaid read to her out of the second volume of Fenelon's [Oe]uvres Spirituelles.
An old, scolding, but true-souled chambermaid from Nuremberg was the rake; she could not be drawn away from Liana, or reduced to silence.
The chambermaid had to make profession with the vow of silence, which she kept as strictly as she could, but not more so.
