Recollections of a HousekeeperHarper & Brothers, 1838 - 155 páginas |
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... [ Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1834 , by HARPER & BROTHERS , in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New - York . ] TO MRS . FAY , Of Cambridge , Massachusetts , Yilman Mrs. C. (H.) ...
... [ Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1834 , by HARPER & BROTHERS , in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New - York . ] TO MRS . FAY , Of Cambridge , Massachusetts , Yilman Mrs. C. (H.) ...
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... entering the meeting - house , I observed a stranger outside the porch , and on glancing at the gallery , after I was seated , I again perceived him there . I thought he looked at our pew more than was correct , but , some how or other ...
... entering the meeting - house , I observed a stranger outside the porch , and on glancing at the gallery , after I was seated , I again perceived him there . I thought he looked at our pew more than was correct , but , some how or other ...
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... entered my adopted home in the North Square , one of the most genteel quarters in the then town of Boston . The new carpet , new chairs , and new mahogany , with its virgin hue , undarkened by wax and turpentine , are all before me . My ...
... entered my adopted home in the North Square , one of the most genteel quarters in the then town of Boston . The new carpet , new chairs , and new mahogany , with its virgin hue , undarkened by wax and turpentine , are all before me . My ...
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... entered the kitchen as the scene of her duties with quiet gravity , and went through her work with precision and fidelity , and only on Sunday evenings allowed herself the luxury of reading . Servants ' apartments , in New - England ...
... entered the kitchen as the scene of her duties with quiet gravity , and went through her work with precision and fidelity , and only on Sunday evenings allowed herself the luxury of reading . Servants ' apartments , in New - England ...
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... so much affected by this religious fervour , that he devoted himself to a convent . " Becky was very sentimental , and usually had an interjectional remark whenever I entered the kitchen " Oh , ma'am , " said she to me A HOUSEKEEPER . 67.
... so much affected by this religious fervour , that he devoted himself to a convent . " Becky was very sentimental , and usually had an interjectional remark whenever I entered the kitchen " Oh , ma'am , " said she to me A HOUSEKEEPER . 67.
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asked beautiful Becky bours called cambric chair CHAPTER character cheek cherub child Cholera Cinda Clarissa comfort cook cousin cream Curry dear dinner domestic door dress Edition Edward Engravings eyes feel felt Frae Frederick frill gave gentle glance glass grave Growler guests hair half hand happiness harpsichord HARVARD COLLEGE heard heart honour housekeeper husband Ingols intel John Frost kitchen lady lamp little Polly LL.D look Lucy luxuries Lyddy ma'am Mam'selle marriage mind minuet Miss Packard morning mortification mother Nancy neighbour ness never New-England night obliged parlour passed perceived Polly's poor Portrait recollect roasting Sally seemed sewing sideboard Sidney Doane silent Sliter smile sometimes soon spinet stairs Stockton stood Sukey sweet taste tears thing thrown tion took turned uncon veal visiters voice vols walked week wife William William Robertson window woman young
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Página 124 - ... after which, to the last moment of his life, he never heard the least allusion to the story, in whatever voice or tone it was mentioned, without getting up and retiring into the darkest corner of the room with great appearance. of distress. Then if you said, ' The baker was well paid,' or ' The baker was not hurt after all,' Camp came forth from his hiding-place, capered, and barked, and rejoiced.
Página 122 - Oh, young and lovely bride, watch well the first moments when your will conflicts with his to whom God and society have given the control. Reverence his wishes even when you do not his opinions.
Página 69 - As mine own shadow was this child to me, A second self, far dearer and more fair ; Which clothed in undissolving radiancy All those steep paths which languor and despair Of human things had made so dark and bare.