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Updated: May 14, 2025
Great ladies who had been the beauties of the salons, whose gowns had been the envy of their circles, took off their silks and chiffons and put on the simple dress of the infirmiere and volunteered to do the humblest work, the dirty work of kitchen-wenches and scullery-girls and bedroom-maids, so that their hands might help, by any service, the men who had fought for France.
"One wouldn't want a better parable," she said. "It's like the State as you see it magnificent, inspiring, a thing of pomp and dignity. But we women, who have to drive and keep going a house like that we know what it all rests upon. It rests upon a few tired kitchen-maids and boot-boys and scullery-girls, hurrying, panting creatures, whom a guest never sees, who really run it all.
He was too great a personage to be familiar with such inferior creatures as housemaids, scullery-girls, and menials of that class, he was only on intimate terms with the cook, Mrs.
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