the housemaid

Also called a housemaid I used to know

A housemaid Bertie once knew, source of the phrase 'overbearing dishpot'.

Talked about, but not there

Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as a housemaid I used to know

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ALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU, SIR,' HE SAID, IN A RUMMY KIND OF VOICE, "'THEN THAT'S ALL RIGHT,' SAID THE CHAPPIE, HEARTILY. 'IHAT WAS ALL ' THAT I AM THE DUKE OF CHISWICK. WE WANTED TO KNOW. LET THE THING GO ON.Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1917

The brother was forming a bond. She and Bingo used to take him for walks together. awerThe Metropolitan Touch, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, September 1922

We are all waiting for you in the large schoolroom." "But I don't know a bit what to talk about." "Why, anything, Mr. Wooster. Be bright—bright and amusing.Bertie Changes His Mind, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, August 1922

I don't know what the record is for popping out and buying aniseed, but I should think I hold it.Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh, Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, October 1929

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My friend, Bertie Wooster," said Tuppy to the girl, in what seemed to me rather an apologetic manner. You know—as if he would have preferred to hush me up.