( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Lor, what a stupid thing that cook is!' said the thirty boarders.
Here the cook began to cry, and the housemaid said it was 'a shame!' forwhich partisanship she received a month's warning on the spot.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'What an impudent thing that cook is!' said the thirty boarders.
Thedoor was just going to be closed in consequence, when an inquisitiveboarder, who had been peeping between the hinges, set up a fearfulscreaming, which called back the cook and housemaid, and all the moreadventurous, in no time.
When this ceremony of introduction had been gone through, the cook andMary retired into the back kitchen to titter, for ten minutes; thenreturning, all giggles and blushes, they sat down to dinner.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Here Mary laughed, and said the cook had made her; and the cook laughed,and said she hadn't.
It's natur; ain't it, cook?Don't ask me, imperence,' replied the cook, in a high state of delight;and hereupon the cook and Mary laughed again, till what between thebeer, and the cold meat, and the laughter combined, the latter younglady was brought to the verge of choking--an alarming crisis from whichshe was only recovered by sundry pats on the back, and other necessaryattentions, most delicately administered by Mr. Samuel Weller.
Mr. Weller was in the height ofhis attentions to the pretty house-maid; Mr. Muzzle was busy doing thehonours of the table; and the cook had just paused to laugh, in the veryact of raising a huge morsel to her lips; when the kitchen door opened,and in walked Mr. Job Trotter.