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Updated: September 28, 2025
If you can answer them, you are free; if not, I shall devour you immediately." "Very good," I answered; "I am ready to hear them." Then he began: "What is cruel?" "A wicked woman's heart." "What is most to the advantage of a householder?" "Good qualities in a wife." "What is love?" "Imagination." "What best accomplishes difficult things?" "Cunning.
"Madam," returned the unhappy householder, "I wish that remark were strictly truthful. I was talking about you. It would be shillings and pence nay, pounds, in my pocket, madam, if I did not know you." "That is a bit of specious nonsense," returned the ghost, throwing a quart of indignation into the face of the master of Harrowby.
In this sort, on whatever scale, whether of the capitalist or of the cottager, the supreme feature is the lawn; the lawn-mower puts this feature within the reach of all, and pretty nearly every American householder has, such as it is, his bit of Eden. But just in that happy moment the Tempter gets in.
Behind the black boles of the elms that swept the vista of the street with the fine gray tracery of their boughs, stood the houses, deep-sunken in the accumulating drifts, through which each householder kept a path cut from his doorway to the road, white and clean as if hewn out of marble.
Within twenty four hours this generous householder had sent a message to the inn, placing all that her garden or house afforded at the disposal of the travellers. Fielding's man-servant was despatched with proper acknowledgements, and returned "in company with the gardener, both richly laden with almost every particular which a garden at this most fruitful season of the year produces."
Every householder of any importance subscribes an annual sum to a band of musicians, who go round in long cloaks to each house, singing fugas and canons, unaccompanied by instruments, in "the most beautiful and correct style imaginable," something, we suppose, in the style of the Tyrolese minstrels. Ibid.
It is also an unspeakable relief, to anyone whose Christianity is something more than form, to have Christian servants round about you. Housekeeping in India is either difficult or very easy, according to the view that is taken of the moral responsibility of a householder.
Of these, each succeeding one is superior in point of merit to that which precedes it, according to what has been laid down in the scriptures. The duties of the householder are all said to be exceedingly meritorious. The house-holder should never sleep during the day, or during the first part of the night, or during the last part thereof.
Frequently one finds the house of a competitor fast locked and dumb, its occupants being at work in some mill or shop. Then if the visit is one of official inspection a card stating that fact and dated and signed on the spot is left under the door, and on its reverse side the returning householder finds printed the following: "In marking for merit your whole place is considered your garden.
You are a fair subject for suspicion, apart from the evidence shown," said the Abbe, trying now to be as polite as the tailor. "This is a free country. So long as the law is obeyed, one can go where one wills without question, I take it." "There is a law of vagrancy." "I am a householder, a tenant of the Church, not a vagrant."
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