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"Here, slavey, is the sky," I think; "it becomes romantic for the moment because to you it is the symbol of lost dreams, or happy hours in fields. To me it is nothing but a sky. I have no interest in skies. But I am looking at it for you and enjoying it through your romantic eyes." But her romantic eyes are oblivious. They consult the rain-washed pavement before her and nothing else.
"So you want to come here to board with us, my dear?" began the masked one, which was the signal for an exchange of grave winks between the hairdresser, the manicure, and the little slavey, Julia, who was pouring the hot water into the pitcher on the washstand.
Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slicking specimen of the London slavey.
Jackson, 'and hearing that you were here, from the slavey, took a coach and came on. Our people want you down in the city directly, Mrs. Bardell. 'Lor! ejaculated that lady, starting at the sudden nature of the communication. 'Yes, said Mr. Jackson, biting his lip. 'It's very important and pressing business, which can't be postponed on any account.
At 12 o'clock at noon, sometimes at 1, nay at 2 and 3 long after Bagshot is gone to his committees, and little Cann to her pupils a voice issues from the very topmost floor, from a room where there is no bell; a voice of thunder calling out "Slavey! Julia! Julia, my love! Mrs. Ridley!"
"She used to be my 'boss' when I was a poor little slavey in the Star office, before my best beloved prince came and rescued me from dragons and printers' devils." "And are you so fond of her that you keep up the acquaintance?" "Oh, I remember how hard it used to be to get 'matter'; and I don't mind helping her out a bit when she's hard pressed."
For myself I unfeignedly admire the delicacy which leads to a certain parsimony in the use of words like "perspiration," "cleaning one's self," and so on. And, however much we may laugh at the class that insists upon the name of "help" instead of "servant," we cannot but respect the class which yields to the demand and looks with horror on the English slang word "slavey."
At that moment there came a loud knock at the outer door, then a ring, followed by a cheerful voice calling through the window "I say, Hagar, are you there? Shall I come in or wait on the mat till the slavey arrives. * Oh, here she is Salaam! Talofa! Aloha! which is heathen for How do you do, God bless you, and All hail!"
And whilst he was thus agreeably engaged on one occasion a knock came to the door, and a slattern slavey came in with a plate in her hand, and on the plate a wet and flabby oblong something crusted with dirt and slime. 'I can't quite make it out, sir,'said the slavey, 'but I think as this is a letter, and it hasn't been opened, sir, and I fancy it's addressed to you.
"Say, Corp, go an' tell Fuselli to straighten out Lieutenant Stanford's room at eight sharp in Officers' Barracks, Number Four." "Did you hear, Fuselli?" "All right," said Fuselli. His blood boiled up suddenly. This was the first time he'd had to do servants' work. He hadn't joined the army to be a slavey to any damned first loot. It was against army regulations anyway. He'd go and kick.
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