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To such a degree, that she desired Madame Wang, Ying Ch'un and her sisters to see that Mrs. Hsueeh had some wine, while she herself retired to the Tao Hsiang village to rest. Lady Feng immediately bade some servants fetch a bamboo chair. On its arrival, dowager lady Chia seated herself in it, and two matrons carried her off hemmed in by lady Feng, Li Wan and a bevy of servant-girls, and matrons.
In a few seconds three doors burst open, and three servant-girls rushed at the band with three sixpences to beseech it to go away. "Couldn't go under a shillin' a head," said the clarionet gravely. A word from Gildart, however, induced him to accept of the bribe and depart.
Wallner's wife alone had remained at home, for she had to attend to the preparations for the wedding-banquet, with which she and her servant-girls had been occupied during the whole of the previous day.
The evangelist is a man of intellect and prayer, who can preach the gospel to a scientific age, and to a thinking coterie a coterie of college men and mechanics, of society women and servant-girls, of poets and of mine-diggers, of convicts and of reformers.
One half of the successful burglaries committed on dwelling-houses are in consequence of information gained by beggars. Servant-girls are lured away by old women who come in the guise of alms-seekers, and by well-feigned poverty and a seeming spirit of humble thankfulness often of pious trust in God win upon their sympathy and confidence.
"The monthly allowances of the servant-girls, attached to the secondary wives," lady Feng hurriedly added with a smile, "amounted originally to a tiao each, but ever since last year, it was decided, by those people outside, that the shares of each of those ladies' girls should be reduced by half, that is, each to five hundred cash; and, as each lady has a couple of servant-girls, they receive therefore a tiao short.
The Marquise was rescued sobbing and shivering, but she shared her blanket with one of the poor servant-girls.
Dam is more important than good form, and I had to show him in the strongest possible way that he was dearer to me than ever. If it was 'behaving like a servant-girl' all honour to servant-girls, I think ... considering the circumstances. You should have seen his face before he caught sight of me. Yes and after, too.
"In days gone by," P'ing Erh interposed, "four servant-girls came along with her, but what with those who've died and those who've gone, only I remain like a solitary spirit." "You're, after all, the fortunate one!" Li Wan retorted, "but our hussey Feng too is lucky in having you! Had I not also once, just remember, two girls, when your senior master Chu was alive?
They had visits from Girbal, Foureau, and Captain Heurtaux, and then from inferior persons Langlois, Beljambe, their husbandmen, and even the servant-girls of their neighbours; and, on each occasion, they went over the same explanations, showed the place where the chest would be, affected a tone of modesty, and claimed indulgence for the obstruction.
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