When the pretty chambermaid had retired, Fullaway took up the box from which the missing property was believed to have been abstracted.

"It was not worth while making so much fuss about a little chambermaid.

They had read the memoirs of that idyllic period diligently, had read with minds only for the flimsy glitter which hid the vulgarity and silliness and shame as a gorgeous robe hastily donned by a dirty chambermaid might conceal from a casual glance the sardonic and repulsive contrast.

Gregorio had been heard laughing wildly in his room, and a frightened chambermaid said that he was going mad.

Day faded into night, night faded into day, marked only by the thumping of the outraged chambermaid, at whom he thundered.

Three antiquated chambermaids entered the bedroom, and they were shortly afterwards followed by the Countess, who, more dead than alive, sank into a Voltaire armchair.

She turned up, as I say, yesterday, aloneshe explained something about her maid having been obliged to leave her on arrival in England, and since she came she's had the services of one of our smartest chambermaids, whom she herself picked out after carefully inspecting a whole dozen of them.

Terrence watched the comers and goers awhile and then halted a colored chambermaid, and, in an awe-inspiring whisper, asked who was sick in the room "ferninst."