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    •SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN. 239

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    Cit Everybody Knows That November Lias A...

    the lady she first lived with , and that her eldest daughter who died of ' went consumption to Africa ; and etc . that and the then boy she wi would th the enumerate book was Master a list of Alfred excellences , who

    as long as a sea , -serpent , , as , appertaining to the " family , till the corner of her apron was broug few ht such up to ervants her eye .

    this "Oh is true , ' says , and one perhaps , " there one are reason may s be that now there -a-days are . " few Perhaps such mistresses as were Doroth's . Not one _^ vord against , or in

    dispaefficient rageme . nt of The those various schemes departments y whose object of domestic is to ren service der servant require s to more be

    learnt like other trades . Surely any one of these requires to be taught as much as does the art of making * without a dress hum . But weakness what we

    desiderate chiefly , is a set of human beings an : long for so long the as mind weak of -minded a mistress women is such ( ladies a miserable I mean ) shallow are the that rule , the so

    as , murmur of the milkman ' s voice in momentary confab with the maid , or the fact that the cook has pinned the bow on her bonne fc in imiturbulence

    long tation shall of her we betters hear that , is sufficient servants to are excite the greatest its muddy plague in life , so . What can be more undignified than the conduct of those ladies who

    Those are perpetuall who have y undertaken chafing and to manufacture complaining * about irls towards their whoin servants the ? g

    needed exercise have of patience undertaken , and forb a rather earance difficult , and consideration task : they shall had best not sot be

    about it , , and I'll square the circle in the meantime . One little bit mi of stresses my mind , with with all the their adieu grievances to this subj , were ect . placed If all in the one comp scale laining , and .

    all the wicked servants , with all the surreptitious scraps and candleends , and Mr . Mayhew knows best what else , in the other , it is , doubtful which elbow of the scales would rise .

    proceeded After stirring to the her upper fire part and of arrang the ing house some , and little opened lo matters the , attic door Doroth of y a

    little somewhat irl about large , four but poorly of furnished and a and boy de perhaps solate two oking years older . A ,

    were g in pettish to the altercation fire years supported , and age , on in a an bed upri which ght position was placed by a in bol a -

    corner near , ster whose , behind countenance which , was mortal placed disease some was str visibl aw , was y impressed a young . woman , on sorrowful tone

    The " 1 gotten young one woman of ' em ' s countenance back , said Dorotliy fell . "I ' m a very much had obli to wait ged .

    to you , " she said , or rather faltered . " I ' m afraid you a long No time atte . " r for that if I'd got rid of ' em after all . Oh ! that

    " m man ! What he 11 hev to answer for , some day ! Wring a body ' s heart-blood he wouldif it was the last drop , an' joke time he was

    , if doin to ' it tell . But her mind I s'll " tell would him be my a mind yet serious . " And affair Doroth indeed y . spoke as

    66 " do not think I can do it , " said very the invalid in a faint voice , as

    her kind friend pointed out the defect .

    •Seamstresses Again. 239

    • SEAMSTRESSES AGAIN . 239

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/23/