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Rose-water, elder-flower water, and all stillroom mysteries found an expert in her, and she even concocted mead from an old recipe.

Valentine soon tired of so much pastoral exercise and departed to St. Germain's, leaving young Charles in the care of an old stillroom maid, now a prosperous farmer's wife.

It was perhaps because she was conscious that Martha was peeping at her through the stillroom window that she began to whistle.

The country gentleman of that age talked like "the most ignorant clown"; his wife and daughter were in taste "below a stillroom maid of the present day."

Tristram, she knew, loved her stillroom maid's brown bread and butter.