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"Hear, then, what I have to tell," said the divine, "on the faith of a man, a Christian, and, what is more, a servant of our Holy Church; and, therefore, though unworthy, an elder and a teacher among Christians.
Then he perched himself on the edge of the centre table and remarked easily: "Your master did not take you to town with him, then?" "I am the head servant, and he leaves me in charge of the house. It's a strong, young chap that travels with our master. If God forbid there was some accident on the road, he would be of much more use than I."
She was, nevertheless, a conscientious woman; and when she left Georgia, to come North, had any one told her that she would run away, she would have answered in the spirit, if not the expression, of the oft quoted, "Is thy servant a dog?"
Then she turned suddenly and opened the door to the servant, whose approaching footsteps she had heard. "Will you please show Mr. Weiss out?" she said. "He is in rather a hurry." Mr. Weiss went without a word.
With the servant problem growing more complex every year, more and more hostesses are turning to hotels to provide their special dinners. These cannot rival a successful dinner at home but often they are much easier to arrange and even the most conservative of hostesses may entertain dinner guests at a hotel. Private dining-rooms are a luxury but much more charming than the public room.
Meanwhile you will have to be my servant. From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest work, and each morning something more disagreeable seemed to await her. Besides which, she had no food but a little black bread, and no bed but a little straw.
And what a miracle, incessantly renewed, was that of Heaven deigning to descend into human flesh, of the Deity fixing His abode in His chosen servant, whom He consecrated above and beyond all others, endowing him with all power and all science!
"What you say, Massa Easy submit to me? no, sar, when you are on board Harpy as officer, you talk with me as a friend, and not treat me as negro servant.
She never allowed herself to enter a house by the back or side door, so now she went to the front, where, disappointed at not seeing any of the family although she had made good use of her eyes, she was obliged to ask a servant to conduct her to Mrs. Blynn.
The old servant seemed anxious to speak of her, anxious to impress Rose with her sweetness and goodness. But Rose cut her short. She refused to interest herself in the stranger who in a few weeks' time would pass out of their lives again. And she grew cross at last at Wilmot's continual praises of her. She went back by an earlier train than she had intended.
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