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  • They paid me per amount I stuffed, can't remember what the rates were (probably laughable) but it seemed to me like a lot of money - more than I'd ever earned before as Sunday girl at a florist or chambermaiding (I lasted three weeks).

    The joys of admin kisobel 2008

  • "I hope to find employment as a chambermaid, there to encounter completely by surprise some handsome courtier who will love me madly and take me away from it all, and I shall live happily ever after in his rich house when all I ever expected was a life of chambermaiding."

    Falcon Street 2010

  • Roxy had no home now; so she resolved to go around and say good-by to her friends and then clear out and see the world -- that is to say, she would go chambermaiding on a steamboat, the darling ambition of her race and sex.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • At the time she was set free and went away chambermaiding, she was thirty-five.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • He asked her how she could bear to go off chambermaiding and leave her boys; and chaffingly offered to copy off a series of their fingerprints, reaching up to their twelfth year, for her to remember them by; but she sobered in a moment, wondering if he suspected anything; then she said she believed she didn't want them.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • He asked her how she could bear to go off chambermaiding and leave her boys; and chaffingly offered to copy off a series of their fingerprints, reaching up to their twelfth year, for her to remember them by; but she sobered in a moment, wondering if he suspected anything; then she said she believed she didn't want them.

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • At the time she was set free and went away chambermaiding, she was thirty-five.

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • Roxy had no home now; so she resolved to go around and say good-by to her friends and then clear out and see the world -- that is to say, she would go chambermaiding on a

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

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