ill-waited

Updated: May 3, 2025

How many servants have you?" "I have never reckoned them. Manningtree knows, no doubt; for his wages book would tell him. I take it there may be more than fifty, and less than a hundred. Anyhow, we could not exist were they fewer." "More than fifty people to wait upon four!" "For our state and importance, cherie. We are very ill-waited upon.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - London Pride : Or When the World Was Younger