"It has come to my knowledge since," he added, "that Hawley sent some one to examine the housekeeper at Stone Court, and she said that she gave the patient all the opium in the phial I left, as well as a good deal of brandy.
"The housekeeper said he was a relation of the master's.
He sat up alone with him through the night, only ordering the housekeeper to lie down in her clothes, so as to be ready when he called her, alleging his own indisposition to sleep, and his anxiety to carry out the doctor's orders.
The housekeeper had told him without the least constraint of manner that since Mr.
The coachman begged leave to take out the horses for half an hour as there was something wrong with a shoe; and Dorothea, having the sense that she was going to rest, took off her gloves and bonnet, while she was leaning against a statue in the entrance-hall, and talking to the housekeeper.
Bulstrode, in giving orders to the housekeeper for the accommodation of the guest, had a resolute air of quietude.
Strickland was an excellent housekeeper.
Eventually, a slow train having landed them at a station not very far from Toad Hall, they escorted the spell-bound, sleep-walking Toad to his door, put him inside it, and instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed.
"Catherine would make a sad, heedless young housekeeper to be sure," was her mother's foreboding remark; but quick was the consolation of there being nothing like practice.
Because no time is to be lost in frightening my old housekeeper out of her wits, because I must go and prepare a dinner for you, to be sure.
While they snugly repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before.
She had the very air of a competent housekeeper.
She is such a perfect housekeeper and fancy what she must have thought of us.
' "'Never you mind,' says I, 'some lucky man will throw his rope over a mighty elegant little housekeeper some day, not far from here.
What I want is a housekeeper.
Trent's housekeeper got word from him today," said Cousin Stickles, so suddenly that Valancy jumped guiltily.
She heard him rushing madly about overhead, barking out a few remarks to somebody—presumably his housekeeper.
I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don't send away that alligator.
His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him; but the Doctor looked after the garden himself.
I was fortunate to find a wonderful housekeeper to care for the children during the week, but from Friday nights to Monday mornings, the children and I were alone, and frankly I was uneasy.
