Was there a poetical justice in this, that the little ménage thus secretly established, in the solitary and timeworn pile, should have themselves experienced, but from causes not so easily explicable, those very supernatural perturbations which they had themselves essayed to inspire?

The awkward ménage was established.

The household duties were scrupulously observed, each man assuming his rôle in the complicated ménage.

And it was by some of these malcontents with more wit than reason, that Lady Holland was accused of receiving in two very distinct fashionsen ménage and en ménagerie.

Does he sup on them, or are they only the cups and saucers of his vegeto-aquarian ménage?

" "You have no domestic?" I explained that I had a femme de ménage.

Then appeared the section of a dwelling, which was made to portray the interior of domestic economy, having its kitchen, its utensils, and most of the useful and necessary objects that may be said to compose the material elements of an humble ménage.

The English of that is that for our joint ménage we shouldn't want your income at all; we could quite well do without it, and you would be perfectly free to use it in whatever way you like.

His bill from the washer-lady for the week succeeding his inauguration as President, and before his domestic ménage was in running order, was for "6 Ruffled shirts, 2 plain shirts, 8 stocks, 3 pair Silk Hose, 2 White hand.