She mimicked the voice of a former servant who had come to visit her.
Her character is a former servant in an affluent late-19th-century household, making a confession decades later.
He was the third of fifteen children born to a former servant girl and a rural Baptist schoolteacher who also worked as a sharecropper and a judge.
Retiring to a bitter isolation, Timon rails against all humanity and refuses every sort of consolation, even that of well-meant companionship and sympathy from a former servant.
An unspoken love surfaces in the story of Rosanna Spearman, a former servant within the Verinder household who nursed a hidden affection for Franklin.
When they moved to a new house, in 1932, Stevens occupied the master bedroom and Elsie a former servant's quarters.
A former servant tells Bailey that at the time of the duke's death, "a culture of secrecy pervaded the castle".
The cast is rounded out with very nice performances by Geddeth Smith as several old men of varying temperaments; Margaret Daly as various older women, including a former servant who now runs a rooming house; and Brian Hutchison as the other nonaristocratic characters.
The very fact that a former servant was now making available the secrets of the gentry kitchens in which she had learned her trade was, in itself, provocative enough.
Although he, too, was large and broad-shouldered and a former servant of the Kuchma regime (he was the country's central banker from 1993 to 1999, after which he served for a year and a half as a "reformist" Prime Minister), Viktor Yushchenko was mild-mannered, formal, and strikingly handsome.
