said Hester, the little kitchen-maid late on her promotion--"and to Madame Crawley, so good and kind, and his Rev'rince (with a curtsey), and you may search all MY boxes, Mum, I'm sure, and here's my keys as I'm an honest girl, though of pore parents and workhouse bred--and if you find so much as a beggarly bit of lace or a silk stocking out of all the gownds as YOU'VE had the picking of, may I never go to church agin."

said Hester, the little kitchen-maid, "and to Madame Crawley, so good and kind, and you may search all my boxes, Ma'am, I'm sure, and here's my keys as I'm an honest girl, and if you find so much as a beggarly bit of lace, may I never go to church agin."
