Impossibility of getting good servants--Over-civilization--Labour has
been made hideous--Sleeping partnership--Wealth exempt from this
difficulty--Refinement of the professional class--Credit--Phase of
insecurity and scarcity--Sweet are the uses of adversity--English
people do not fear work--Servants too readily changed--Wilfulness of
servants--Upper servants are easily obtained--Servants feel the
pressure of the times--Ornamental servants costly luxuries--Two
questions--Work must be efficiently done--Woman's work--Misuse of
time--We keep servants to wait upon each other--Idleness--Pleasure
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