The servant's behaviour book; or, Hints on manners and dress for maid servants in small households, by mrs. Motherly |
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The Servant's Behaviour Book: Or, Hints on Manners and Dress for Maid ... Emily Augusta Patmore No preview available - 2014 |
The Servant's Behaviour Book: Or, Hints On Manners and Dress for Maid ... Emily Augusta Patmore No preview available - 2023 |
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anchovy answer awkward bedroom beer BELL AND DALDY better bread celery cheese cheese-plates child clean collar cotton course cruets curtsey dessert dinner directions dirt dirty dish drawing-room dress Edition entering Fcap fish FLEET STREET fork friends gilt edges give hands heard hot plates keep kitchen knives knock ladies and gentlemen lady or gentleman laugh leave limp calf look low voice Lucy manner marriage Mary master meat mistress morning napkin neat never nursery once open the door person potatoes Prayers pudding pudding-plates quietly ready remember respectful round rule salt-cellars sauce say Ma'am say Sir shillings shut the door side sideboard sloven small tray soup speak spoon stairs stand strangers suppose sure take the plate talk tart tell things thought told unbidden unless visitor waiting at table walk wash wear young girls young servants
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Page 49 - As I spoke to her she sank down on a chair saying 'Excuse me, ma'am, I am so tired,' but I could not excuse her. She acted very rudely. It would have been but a small effort to stand for a few moments, however tired she might be and girls who are not capable of such an effort are not fit for service.42 In the street, servants, male or female, walked a few paces behind their master or mistress.
Page 19 - ... may speak when spoken to," he grumbles, tucking his closing morning glory back inside his pajamas (behind her, bees are humming in the garden and there's a crackly pulsing of insects, but the birds have fallen silent: she had thought today might be perfect, but already it is slipping away from her), "unless it be to deliver a message or ask a necessary question.