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Updated: May 16, 2025
Now I knew she was used to receiving about a penny from manly people who care nothing about the opinions of scullery-maids, and about tuppence from moral cowards; but I laid a silver twenty-five cent piece within her reach and tried to shrivel her up with this sarcastic speech: "If it isn't enough, will you stoop sufficiently from your official dignity to say so?" She did not shrivel.
"The amphitheatre was packed, from the bull-ring to the highest row twelve thousand people in one circling mass, one slanting, solid mass royalties, nobles, clergy, ladies, gentlemen, state officials, generals, admirals, soldiers, sailors, lawyers, thieves, merchants, brokers, cooks, housemaids, scullery-maids, doubtful women, dudes, gamblers, beggars, loafers, tramps, American ladies, gentlemen, preachers, English ladies, gentlemen, preachers, German ditto, French ditto, and so on and so on, all the world represented: Spaniards to admire and praise, foreigners to enjoy and go home and find fault there they were, one solid, sloping, circling sweep of rippling and flashing color under the downpour of the summer sun just a garden, a gaudy, gorgeous flower-garden!
"I believe it well you will go! You were mad ever to dream otherwise. Fetch my jewel-case the large one, of steel, with the American lock." "Madame takes all her jewels, then?" the maid enquired, moving about the room. "But naturally. What do you think? That I leave them here for the scullery-maids to give their maquereaux? I shall pack them tonight, before I sleep."
Despite his great bulk he had the clean, dainty step of a cat; his big, rolling ears were those of a hare. Henson was always listening. He would have listened behind a kitchen door to a pair of chattering scullery-maids. He liked to find other people out, though as yet he had not been found out himself.
The farm servants had gone to their homes, save the few that were attached to the premises, such as scullery-maids and dairymaids; and Mrs. Pemberthy, Mrs. Tarne, and her daughter Sophie were waiting early supper for Reuben, and wondering what kept him so long from his home and his sweetheart. Mrs.
Now I knew she was used to receiving about a penny from manly people who care nothing about the opinions of scullery-maids, and about tuppence from moral cowards; but I laid a silver twenty-five cent piece within her reach and tried to shrivel her up with this sarcastic speech: "If it isn't enough, will you stoop sufficiently from your official dignity to say so?" She did not shrivel.
The young governess appeared intensely surprised at the words; she looked up, first at the General and then at Clare. Probably it seemed to her a gross insult that a poet should be sent to take his meal with the footmen and scullery-maids.
I am fated to go through life, in the future, not merely with an exalted opinion of scullery-maids this I should not regret but also with an only too clear picture, when at the dinner table, of the adventures of each dish of broken meats on its exit from view.
This communication was followed almost immediately afterwards by another, emanating from the same officer, who was one of the Prince's aides-de-camp. At ten o'clock every morning, the Mayor was to send 40 bottles of Bordeaux, 40 bottles of Champagne, 6 bottles of Madeira, and 3 bottles of liqueurs. He was also to provide waiters to serve at table, and kitchen- and scullery-maids.
Does he make no distinction between the vaudeville, continuous performance buffoons and the thousands who are "not stars," but working well and perhaps hoping? Does he call our scullery-maids and stable-boys "representative American middle class?" Does he call Mable Strickland and other dainty little hard-workers in minor parts typical of the hideous coarseness and vice he has described?
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