servant-government

Updated: June 22, 2025

This sensitiveness was a trait in her character which gave great gratification to her husband, and, indeed, to all who knew her. 'And have you any theory on the vexed question of servant-government? continued Mrs. Belmaine, smiling. 'But no the subject is of far too practical a nature for one of your bent, of course. 'O no it is not at all too practical.

Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta