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Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.
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servants
spying
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Penelope Farmer |
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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.
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class
elitism
humor
servants
society
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Marcel Proust |
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Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,
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granny-risa
princesses
servants
young-risa
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Sherwood Smith |
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49500eb
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Honestly,' she said when they were out of Bruce's earshot, 'he's as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant's night off, anyway?' Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. 'Cold lobster and caviar,' she said earnestly.
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lobster
rich-people
servants
sweet-valley
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Francine Pascal |
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db61388
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Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself.
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servants
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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00cc584
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She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.
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grace
gracias
servants
survival
thanks
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Barbara Kingsolver |