 ... hall, second table, with housekeeper and steward, instead of the one little charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray upstairs if she had not been assisted in private by her mistress, who now...  The Aberdeen University Calendar - Page 610by University of Aberdeen - 1915Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 418 pages
...charity-school-maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up stairs, if she had not been assisted, in private, by her mistress...had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge cakes !" Reader do you know any Mrs. Forresters' ? We do, several of them. You will find in... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up stairs, if she had not been assisted, in private, by her mistress,...know what cakes were sent up ; though she knew, and they knew, and she knew that they knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea bread and sponge... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1891 - 352 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up-stairs, if she had not been assisted in private...had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge cakes. There were one or two consequences arising from this general but unacknowledged poverty,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1864 - 260 pages
...charityschool maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up-stairs, if she had not been assisted in private...had been busy all the morning making teabread and sponge cakes. There were one or two consequences arising from this general but unacknowledged poverty,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1867 - 304 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up-stairs, if she had not been assisted in private...all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. There were one or two consequences arising from this general but unacknowledged poverty, and this very... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1873 - 516 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up-stairs, if she had not been assisted in private...sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were seni up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we... | |
 | 1874 - 752 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arm« could never have been strong enough to carry the tray upstairs, if she had not been assisted in private...knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that the knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making teabread and sponge-cakes." And so... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray upstairs, if she had not been assisted in private by her mistress, who now sate in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pages
...upstairs, if she had not Lein assisted in private by her mistress, who now sate in state, prewnding not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we tnew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that тс knew, she had been busy all the... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1886 - 516 pages
...charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray up-stairs, if she had not been assisted in private...sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were seni; up, though she knew , and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that... | |
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