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Imagine the shock to the family when he announced his intention to marry a catholic hotel maid! This love dynamic in his life was the catalyst for his search for religious truth
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eighty years old if she was a day, alone and surely decrepit, an old maid who had
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In the meantime, she still works as a chamber maid in the Hotel “Blue Rose” in Vouliagmeni, while my parents have undertaken the bringing up and support of her two sons – which means at least half of my father's pension is spent on the needs of Alice and her children
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Jalloo, his downstairs maid, re-appeared just then
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With these flowers, my love, my firm, true maid,
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the hem of a perfect maid,
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and the petticoat maid,
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dizzy with complicity, he took the maid and rode away
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The Filipino maid, however, believing in ghosts and witches, made a mental note to keep watch the very next night
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The dog brought her as fast as he could, but the maid was waiting for him and she followed the dog and his package at a discreet distance in the back of her cousin's minicab
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The maid followed the dog right up to the door of the soldier's suite at the hotel, where, so that she would remember things properly in the morning, the maid chalked a white cross onto the door
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The great bank’s chairman was ready to fire the maid for causing so much confusion and embarrassment, but his wife had extensive experience in the realm of hotels and subterfuge, and she persuaded him to go to work and that she would sort things out with the domestic staff
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Instead of firing the poor girl, the chairman’s wife asked the maid to sew a little bag of the finest silk and fill it with ground up Puy lentils
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In particular she asked each fair maid if she would wash her son’s crinkly boxer shorts and diamond pattern ankle socks
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Haven’t you got a maid?”
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“It has been observed several times, a young maid of this floor speaking with Lord Boras’
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'As for being an old maid, that's entirely unfair
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The dog brought her as fast as he could, but the maid was
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morning, the maid chalked a white cross onto the door
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The great bank’s chairman was ready to fire the maid for
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of firing the poor girl, the chairman’s wife asked the maid to sew a
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She wasn’t at all happy that I've given Kevin the old heave-ho … and I could have done without her comments about becoming an old maid, however humorously presented
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Ah, one of the women, perhaps that saucy new maid in the kitchen
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maid if she would wash her son’s crinkly boxer shorts and diamond
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I began to think she would become an Old Maid,
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One thing she was sure of, that she most certainly would be present as maid of honor for her closest friend on the occasion of her wedding
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“And she won't think of having a maid, though I've told her we've enough income to afford any help she wishes
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"When the maid came in to clean up she saw it and turned it into management
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Out with this kitchen maid!"
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That thou her maid art far more fair than she
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Be not her maid, since she is envious
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That you, her maid, are far more beautiful than she is
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Don’t be her maid, since she is so jealous
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“Please, ma’am, I won’t spill anything this time,” the scullery maid answered in a
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That afternoon, Praegon told Nerissa she was required as a serving maid again
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would have to be mother, teacher, preacher, doctor, maid, and
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Mama often worried that I would end up an old maid
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A slim Torvellen bar maid with large green eyes and dark hair tied back with a dark kerchief smiled as she scooped up the three coins
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The pair tracked down the physician’s house—indeed, few in Water-Down had comfy burrows like they did at home—and found a maid just stoking the morning’s fires
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At the end, both the bookmaster and Sheriff signed their names, and the pair departed, Dorro slipping the maid a silver coin or two for her assistance
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"It's late for a little maid like you to be up
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The little round-faced Swedish maid mopped the big tears with her
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"If I had three guesses, I should use every one that our maid wanted to
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The Pilgrims had no stoves, and Mistress Carver's maid had built this
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*From "A Last Century Maid and Other Stories for Children," by A
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“Sometimes what a maid needs is a quick rap, to knock some sense into her,” he mused with a smirk, “Feeling better now, are we?”
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It was still suitable for a maid assigned to a woman of Keren-happuch’s rank, but it brought out the highlights of her eyes
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“She will mend,” the maid muttered, focused on her careful wrapping of the cloth bandage
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Would her father reveal her true identity, or hold onto the ruse that she was merely a maid? Which would give the advantage at this stage of the negotiations?
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“I mean that Kay is a lady’s maid to my daughter
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Sally had been a sweet maid, friendly and helpful, and now undoubtedly her father had used and discarded her as one more casualty in his line of conquests
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I am convinced that no African is stupid and if you want to know what happens in someone’s house then ask the maid
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He knew I was meant to be your cognate’s lady’s maid
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“She is your lady’s maid, but what she told that agnate nearly caused your death
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But I didn’t have the energy to spare for a battle of wills with the lady’s maid that I didn’t even want
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The maid showed me to a room where the white telephone was kept
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Briefly considered asking the maid
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The maid pretended to not hear my nervousness
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The maid had a small glass of sherry while we waited; then came a bustle in the front hall
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The maid left the room, and then Betty walked in
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The maid, who pretty much laid all the preparations; and got none of the credit, took off for the day
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What maid wouldn’t mind the odd evening off? The important thing was that she was gone
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In the mornings, I had a decent but rather small breakfast, with Betty and the maid, then Betty would go off to the library where she volunteered
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She arrived at ten-thirty as Caroline suggested, but was seated at a glass-topped, wrought iron table under a hanging wicker lamp in the sunroom to wait, by a maid who explained that Doña Caroline would soon return from riding
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“Your maid showed me in,” and with that, poured a quantity of cocaine onto the table
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Who helped her? The maid? Mrs
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:THE PRINCE AND THE MAID
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Additionally, there was conflicting evidence regarding Gene Frazer: his maid and several others verified that he packed and left several days before the murder for what he said was a trip to the US, but he was not listed as a passenger on bus, plane or ship, nor did immigration record his departure
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Her maid was bawling and sniffling and carrying on as much or more than the princess
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The maid was in the final stages of making up the bed when he walked in
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He sat in one of the easy chairs, reading an old issue of Time that he had packed in his suitcase in Germany, as the maid finished her work
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He ultimately put everything on hangers from the wardrobe in his and Elizabeth’s room and wrote out a note to the maid to return them to the Mendozas’ room
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They were served a first-rate Zurek soup by a maid whom the Countess addressed as Helga
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Colling left the room as the maid began to gently sponge bathe her
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Colling handed Helga the gown over the top of the makeshift screen, and in a few moments the maid announced that he could tell Hermann to bring the soup
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Elizabeth watched as the maid gathered the tray and left the room
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Her role as maid was close to reality, and would require nothing more complicated than remaining close-lipped
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The hotel’s two staff members, a clerk and a maid, were friendly, however, and the rooms were warm
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The maid emerged from the car with two bottles of Hennessey, the last two bottles by Colling’s count, and handed them to Elizabeth, who in turn presented them to the NKVD men
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Do any of you deny that you were at her estate only a few days ago?” His eye caught Hermann, and he stepped over and took him by the arm, pulling him forward, “And you, my friend, are the Countess’ butler, and that woman there is your wife and maid to the Countess
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with the better-deserving maid
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Later the maid was accused of stealing a couple hundred thousand from Pearl’s account, so Jasper fired her
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Maid is not really descriptive of the position, because they had a maid in addition to what Gertrude did
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The maid was
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And he said, ‘Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?’”
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Becoming an “Old Maid” was considered a disgrace
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2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
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4 And one went in, and told his Lord, saying, So and so said the maid that is of the land of Israel
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At vacation time, the family drove away to the sea, leaving Tommy behind with the maid
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“Your suit should be ready by morning,” said the other maid, “pity, though
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maid to fetch her robes
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” Celina said to the maid when she returned with her white robes,
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4 And let the maid who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti; And the thing pleased the king; and he did so
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7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and
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fainted, and bowed herself on the head of the maid that went before her
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1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
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an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of the ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of man with a maid; such
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filled with meat; the woman being odious when she is then married; and a maid servant who is heir to her mistress
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brings her food from abroard; she rises up also while it is yet night, and gives meats to her household, and partly to her maid servants;