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Updated: July 2, 2025
Whatever his previous hired men had done, old Joe was evidently determined that his present "parlour-boarders" should not abate their efforts, and even kept them a little later than usual in the paddocks, remarking that "ter-morrer bein' Sunday, yous might as well cut a bit more scrub." The next morning broke fine and clear, and he looked at them a little doubtfully after breakfast.
There, in fine, he will discover that there being a great deal of human nature in all men, and a great deal that is common to all lives if he has learned to learn and is good-natured withal, he may live pretty comfortably anywhere "As a rough rule, The rough world's a good school," and if there are a few parlour-boarders it is very little advantage to them.
"Mary" and her sister, the bright, dancing, laughing Martha, were parlour-boarders in an establishment just beyond the barriers of Brussels. Again, the cousins of these friends were resident in the town; and at their house Charlotte and Emily were always welcome, though their overpowering shyness prevented their more valuable qualities from being known, and generally kept them silent.
She had twelve intimate and bosom friends out of the twenty-four young ladies. Kitt's, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with salvolatile. Kitt's. Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders.
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