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