In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning, and putting things to rights — always taking the precaution of leaving... Spirit of the English Magazines - Pagina 5541820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1856 - 840 pagina’s
...description of such an apartment is rigidly true:— "The mistress and her confidential maid visit it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough...stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling the floor with tine white sand, which was curiously stroked into angles, and curves, and rhomboids;... | |
| 1856 - 844 pagina’s
...description of such an apartment is rigidly true: — "The mistress and her confidential maid visit it oucc a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning...stocking feet. After scrubbing the floor, sprinkling the floor with fine white sand, which was curiously stroked into angles, and curves, and rhomboids;... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pagina’s
...grand parlor was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress jmd her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning,... | |
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