HOUSEKEEPING in Classic Quotes

1  She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

2  Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

3  The housekeeper came; a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

4  On applying to see the place, they were admitted into the hall; and Elizabeth, as they waited for the housekeeper, had leisure to wonder at her being where she was.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

5  An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  They solaced their wretchedness, however, by duets after supper, while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8