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Updated: June 28, 2025
The Roman officer turned to the giant. "Caesar says that you are to come with him, and he will make you the servant at his door." The Barbarian rose, and his fair cheeks flushed with resentment. "I will serve Caesar as a soldier," said he, "but I will be house-servant to no man-not even to him. If Caesar would see what manner of man I am, let him put one of his guardsmen up against me."
"I b'lieves a bank sol' us nex' to Marse L.Q. Chambers. I 'members him well. I was a house-servant an' de overseer dassent hit me a lick. Marster done lay de law down. Mos' planters lived on dey plantations jus' a part o' de year. Dey would go off to Saratogy an' places up nawth. Sometimes Marse L.Q. would come down to de place wid a big wagon filled wid a thousan' pair o' shoes at one time.
This is a vast change from the situation in the past, when, through the close contact of master and house-servant in the patriarchal big house, one found the best of both races in close contact and sympathy, while at the same time the squalor and dull round of toil among the field-hands was removed from the sight and hearing of the family.
"Dressed in that Thames clothing, over which hangs a draping of seaweed, my hair combed back from the temples, I await Paul's evening call. "With loaded pistols Uncle Thomas occupies my room. Fully armed, the assistant is hiding in the folding wardrobe. "The house-servant is directed to admit any male caller into the room usually occupied by Sir Charles Chesterton.
He is preferred as a house-servant: the Chinese boy of fourteen or sixteen learns quickly to cook and wash in American fashion.
He carried her upstairs to his brother's room, and having placed her on the bed, left her to the care of his mother and Miss Gwynne. Whilst they were employed in getting her into bed, a house-servant came to say that Miss Gwynne was wanted. She found a footman awaiting her, who told her that his master had sent him in search of her, and was in a state of great anxiety about her.
The house-servant led the way from one room to another, each grander than the one they left behind, until at last he came to a great hall where dozens of servants were serving a fine feast. But only one man sat at table a young man with a face so sorrowful that it made a body's heart ache to look upon him. "Can you play good music, piper?" said he.
After doing his errands, he strolled down upon the wharves in the enjoyment of that magnificent wealth of leisure which usually characterized the former "house-servant" of the South, when beyond hail of the street-door. He presently noticed a small vessel lying in the stream, with a peculiar flag flying; and while looking at it, he was accosted by a slave named William, belonging to Mr.
'We keep a house-servant, said cousin Holman, 'but it is churning day, and she is busy. It was meant as a little proud apology for her daughter's being the handmaiden. 'I like doing it, mother, said Phillis, in her grave, full voice. I felt as if I were somebody in the Old Testament who, I could not recollect being served and waited upon by the daughter of the host.
I am so afraid she does not tell me always what she would like. Pray, see after that girl Mrs. Thornton named. If we had a good, efficient house-servant, Dixon could be constantly with her, and I'd answer for it we'd soon set her up amongst us, if care will do it. She's been very much tired of late, with the hot weather, and the difficulty of getting a servant.
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