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He would have 'lost caste' if he had done barber's work for anybody but a European!" "I have a good sweeper servant," a Calcutta minister told me, "but if I should attempt to promote him beyond his caste and make a house-servant of him, every other servant I have would leave, including my cook, who has been a Christian twenty years!"
"Was there anything new, or merely the same old story as before?" asked Helen. "Who can tell? You know Rosa's mother had been a house-servant in Virginia and Rosa had a host of relatives there. Mrs. Mader you remember the Doctor Mader who sometimes attends mother? Well, Mrs. Mader had been West.
In his youthful days he had been a house-servant, and had prided himself on his many accomplishments his dexterity at dinners, his grace at evening parties, the ease and unconcern with which he could meet embarrassing emergencies at either.
My mother always refrained from telling her children frightful stories of the awful sufferings of the slave days. She occupied the position of seamstress and house-servant in her mistress's home, and was never allowed to mingle with plantation slaves. My first teacher was a good-hearted Southern white woman, who knew my mother well and lived in the town of Tuskegee.
Another, who had been brought up as a sort of house-servant to some elderly people that death had visited, came to the city, and Stephen sent him to Dr. Hoffman, who was inquiring about a factotum. He was a very well-looking and well-mannered young coloured lad, and knew how to drive and care for a horse. He was quite a cook also, and soon learned to do the marketing.
The person who never made any talk, but did all the small things, and made all the other people comfortable, is suddenly missed, and in an instant his or her virtues are discovered. This was the case at the Firs when Frances on a certain morning drove away. Watkins missed her the stable-boy, the house-servant the cat, the dog many other domestic pets and most of all, Squire Kane.
This was no other than Digo, the house-servant and factotum of Dr. Stiles, who considered himself as the guardian of his master's estate, his title, his honor, his literary character, his professional position, and his religious creed.
Fortune, in his person, was of small stature, and rather corpulent. Besides being a good Scots cook, he had acted both as groom and house-servant; he had been a soldier, a sutler, a writer's clerk, and an apothecary, from which he possessed the art of writing and suggesting recipes, and had hence, also, perhaps, acquired a turn for making collections in natural history.
This recital, which was made in substance to Hines by my master, cowed the overseer considerably, and a house-servant who was present during the conversation afterwards told me that Hines' face turned white as a sheet, and he trembled like a leaf.
While he followed the house-servant along the passage, and through the kitchen, stepping cautiously on every dark mark in the pattern of the oil-cloth, in order to conceal his dirty foot-prints, Margaret ran upstairs. She met Dixon on the landing. 'How is mamma? where is papa? Missus was tired, and gone into her own room.
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