and not delegate them to persons in a menial situation,

So he wouldn't allow his servants to do so much as

even answer a bell.

Here he is making his wife carry up the water for her bath

to the second floor, much against her inclination,—

And why in the world the gentleman who illustrates

these ballads has put him into a cocked hat is more

than I can tell.

After about three months of this sort of thing, taking the