The first duty of the housemaid in winter is to open the shutters of all the lower rooms in the house, and take up the hearth-rugs of those rooms which she is going to "do" before breakfast.

"She was relative and housemaid of my grandfather during his first marriage.

"Who told you that?" "The housemaid at Riversbrookbefore he went away.

The house in question is that in Gough Square, where Dr. JOHNSON lived, and two of the chief characters are George Constant, the curator, and his sister, to whom the shrine is the most precious object in life ("housemaid to a ghost," one of the other personages rather prettily calls her).

Cooks are paid from $4 to $7 a month; housemaids from $3 to $6 a month; men butlers from $10 to $15; coachmen from $12 to $16 a month; scullery maids and men of all work receive corresponding wages.

Bromley upset the last peg of endurance by hoping that the Americans were bringing a cook and a housemaid with them.

He had now almost lost the use of his vowels, and if I wrote as he spoke, the effect would be like an advertisement for a housemaid during the shortage of wood-pulp.

Messalina gave him some attractive housemaids for bedfellows and intercepted those who were able to afford him any information,some by kindness and some by punishments.

We bring up our under-housemaids on that principle, always.

There was not a housemaid about the rooms or a groom in the stables who did not know how terrible a reprobate their master had been.