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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
209
"I
know
a
lady
who
was
quietly
informed
by
her
nurse
that
she
must
have
a
'specified
hour'
for
visiting
her
children,
for
that
her
entering
without
ceremony
was
most
inconvenient.
The
poor
young
lady,
who
was
fully
persuaded
her
delicate
infant
would
die,
if
removed
to
a
stranger's
hands,
meekly
obeyed,
and
though
tortured
by
the
cries
of
the
poor
sickly
baby,
never
dared
to
intrude
lest
the
nurse
should
abandon
it.
This
is
a
true
history,
and
the
sequel
may
as
well
be
given:
that
the
nurse
remained
seven
years,
at
the
end
of
which
time,
having
become
insupportable,
though
really
devoted
to
the
children,
she
gave
warning,
and,
though
it
cost
her
mistress
bitter
tears
and
much
resolution,
she
was
suffered
to
depart,
and
then
peace
entered
that
house.
"On
the
choice
of
servants
much
of
the
comfort
of
the
young
housekeeper
depends.
It
often
happens
that
her
choice
has
been
determined
by
appearance
rather
than
the
value
of
character.
If
such
be
the
case,
she
will
have
many
difficulties
to
encounter.
It
is,
in
the
present
day,
hardly
safe
to
take
a
servant
if
there
be
a
single
objection
to
character,
however
it
may
be
glossed
over
by
the
person
referred
to
on
this
point;
for
there
is
now
an
unhealthy
disposition
to
pass
over
the
failings
of
servants
who
have
left
their
places,
and
to
make
them
perfect
in
the
eyes
of
others.
In
respect
to
sobriety,
many
people
will
not
acknowledge
that
a
servant
had
had
the
vice
of
drinking,
but
will
cover
the
unpleasant
truth
in
such
gentle
and
plausible
terms
that
it
becomes
difficult
to
comprehend
how
far
the
hint
is
grounded,
or
not.
Be
assured
when
a
lady
or
gentleman
hesitates
on
this
point,
or
on
that
of
honesty,
it
is
wiser
not
to
engage
a
servant.
Nor
are
you
deviating
from
Christian
charity
in
not
overlooking
a
dereliction
of
so
material
a
sort.
The
kindest
plan
to
the
vast
community
of
domestic
servants
is
to
be
rigid
in
all
important
points,
and
having,
after
a
due
experience,
a
just
confidence
in
them,
to
be
somewhat
indulgent
to
errors
of
a
more
trivial
nature.
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