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There is the lodging-house slavey. She has a good heart and a smutty face and is always dressed according to the latest fashion in scarecrows.
~ StageLand
We were acquainted with a lodging-house slavey once--a real one, we mean. She was the handmaiden at a house in Bloomsbury where we once hung out. She was untidy in her dress, it is true, but she had not quite that castaway and gone-to-sleep-in-a-dust-bin appearance that we, an earnest student of the drama, felt she ought to present, and we questioned her one day on the subject.
"How is it, Sophronia," we said, "that you distantly resemble a human being instead of giving one the idea of an animated rag-shop?
~ StageLand
Her duties are to dust the legs of the chairs in the drawing-room. That is the only work she ever has to do, but it must be confessed she does that thoroughly. She never comes into the room without dusting the legs of these chairs, and she dusts them again before she goes out.
~ StageLand
The generosity of people on the stage to the servants there makes one seriously consider the advisability of ignoring the unremunerative professions of ordinary life and starting a new and more promising career as a stage servant.
~ StageLand