He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

Mrs. Andrus was talking to the maid, arranging for her to come in every day, instead of the four days she now worked.

At the home of a gourmet the new maid was instructed in the fine points of serving.

`` Oh, she was just the maid there '', he replied, waving a hand to indicate how completely unimportant she was.

Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..

Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.

Mrs. Fenwick Eustis, whose daughter was also a maid to the queen, wore an ashes of roses slipper satin gown.

Galanthis, a maid of Alcmene who was nearby, observed Lucina's actions and quickly deduced Juno's plans.

Dürer journeyed with his wife and her maid via the Rhine to Cologne and then to Antwerp, where he was well received and produced numerous drawings in silverpoint, chalk and charcoal.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

" Esther 2: 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 beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Frigg then sent her maid Fulla to Geirröth, advising him that a magician would soon enter his court to bewitch him, and saying that he could be recognised by the fact that no dog was fierce enough to leap up at him.

In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.

When his mother returned to work as a lady's maid ( at Uppark, a country house in Sussex ), one of the conditions of work was that she would not be permitted to have living space for her husband and children.

" When Taji kills the old priest holding Yillah captive, he states " remorse smote me hard ; and like lightning I asked myself whether the death deed I had done was sprung of virtuous motive, the rescuing of a captive from thrall, or whether beneath the pretense I had engaged in this fatal affray for some other selfish purpose, the companionship of a beautiful maid.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

: It was an Abyssinian maid,

Þrymr finds the behaviour at odds with his impression of Freyja, and Loki, sitting before Þrymr and appearing as a " very shrewd maid ", makes the excuse that " Freyja's " behaviour is due to her having not consumed anything for eight entire days before arriving due to her eagerness to arrive.

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

" Upon reporting back to her brother, she told him she had " found a young girl, a greek maid, very beautiful, pure and dainty, eloquent as well, the daughter of a philosopher ," and young Theodosius who was full of desire and lust fell in love instantly.

Mary is very poor and has been raised as a humble dairy maid.

: Patricia Hayes appeared very occasionally in series 4 – 6 as Mrs Cravatte, Hancock's maid.

The live-in maid and cook, common features of middle-class homes at the beginning of the century, were virtually unheard of in the 1950s ; only the very rich had servants.

One of his secretaries is quite emphatic that while Vetsera, whom he saw as a " somewhat superficial and emotional maid " who, while displaying " a vivacity and sparkle that would have done justice to a very bright Frenchwoman ", was " a woman without serious thought " and was not the type of woman who usually appealed to the intellectually inclined Rudolf, although he acknowledged that Rudolf was interested in the political opinions of his other lovers to the extent that they were known to be reflections of what their male relatives thought.

: Mahoro is very concerned about her appearance, often not allowing herself to wear normal clothes as she is concerned that it would look bad to the neighbours given her position as a maid.

: Fiore is a very powerful jewel summoner who is Joshua's caretaker / maid ( whom he refers to as " older sister ").

Her relationship with her maid Rosario Salazar ( played by Shelley Morrison ), whom she met and hired in 1985 and for whom she even arranged a marriage with Jack to help her get a Green Card, is very close.

: The fourth son of King Suppiluliuma ( with a palace maid ), he is very skilled with swords and military tactics, and is the mayor of the Hittite city of Kadesh.

A lady's maid would also clean dishes, remove stains from clothing, fill jugs with fresh water every day, polish and dust the furniture every day and sweep the floors very slowly and carefully.

A very minor case is heard second-hand from a penitent Bunter after a maid is caught polishing a beer bottle taken in evidence ( The Nine Tailors ).

He also picks up local gossip, and takes a local maid to the cinema-getting her to speak very indiscreetly about her employer's secrets and likely getting her fired ( though this is not specifically stated ).

The term between maid came from the fact that her duties were split between the area of responsibilities of the housekeeper, butler and cook ; if these individuals did not like one another, the job of the between maid was a very difficult one.

Zhang Ershen ( literally Second Aunt Zhang ), an elderly maid of the landlord, is very sympathetic of Xi ' er.

Former Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd said of Hayes that " he would look very pretty as a French maid ; I wish I had his curls ".

There is another speculation, the princess is just a very beautiful maid in the imperial house which was picked to assume the role of a princess.

In El Obeid Bakhita was bought by a very rich Arab merchant who employed her as a maid in service to his two daughters.

It gives Beavers, usually featured in small roles as a maid, her best screen role, and features the largest supporting role played by a black person in a Hollywood film up till then.

Six months after Thurmond's death in 2003, it was revealed that at age 22, he had fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's maid, Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black girl.

Joan Collins wrote that when she rejected his on-set advances, he embarked on a series of liaisons with other women including an elderly black maid who, according to Collins, was " almost toothless ".

* Beulah-the McGee's black maid and possibly the series ' most unusual character.

Her first film appearance was in The Golden West ( 1932 ), as a maid ; her second was in the highly successful Mae West film I'm No Angel ( 1933 ), as one of the black maids West camped it up with backstage.

Whoopi Goldberg, who later played Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation, described Uhura as a role model for her, recalling that she told her family, " I just saw a black woman on television ; and she ain't no maid!

The 1950s television show Beulah came under fire for depicting a " mammy "- like black maid and cook who was somewhat reminiscent of Aunt Jemima.

In the Japanese light novel series Magician's Academy, one of the professors has a familiar / maid, Eineus the Varghest-a black dog-demon.

* Althea Gibson as Lukey, Miss Hunter's fiercely loyal black maid

Perhaps the most controversial element of the show is the character Mammy Two Shoes, a poor black maid who speaks in a stereotypical " black accent " and has a rodent problem.

In 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she was the daughter of Wilson's former employer, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and Thurmond's black maid.

They tell the maid to leave and share a kiss on the hotel room floor as the screen fades to black

French maid refers to a strongly modified style of servant ’ s dress that evolved from typical maids ’ black and white afternoon uniforms of the nineteenth century ( and their later use by stereotypical soubrette characters in burlesque dramas and bedroom farces ).

Georges and his " wife ", Albin, have lived happily together for many years in an apartment above La Cage with their black ( or any minority chosen at casting ) " maid " Jacob.

One prominent example was the radio and later short-lived TV show Beulah, which featured a black maid named Beulah who helped solve a white family's problems.

In some accounts Sarah, a native of Upper Egypt, appears as the black Egyptian maid of one of the Three Marys, usually Mary Jacobe.

Her beauty and appearance led directors to choose darker skinned actresses for the stereotypical " maid " roles offered to black actresses in those years.

In this film she played the black maid and mother figure to a young white woman.

Her character, Delilah, plays a black maid again but instead of the usual subservience, Delilah has a story equivalent to the white lead.

Walls had the idea for the Chanel inspired pearls and black dress used on the album cover, the french maid look and multiple wardrobe changes for video of " The Way I Feel About You ", and the " Walkin ' the Dog " video, which was based on a scene from the film Sweet Charity.

In this upholstery Rose was indeed a proper woman prepared to assume the black dress, the slip and the elegant apron of a serving maid " ( McKesson 1997, p. 34 ).

Before he departs, however, a drunken and disheartened Edie arrives at his house, and Wharton leaves her in the care of his black maid, Gladys ( Amanda Randolph ).

They have a black maid, Rosaleen, who acts as a surrogate mother for Lily.