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"It is so sensible of you, dear. Of The Boy brought in dessert and a! message from the Autocrat of the Pot and Pan Place.
"Cook he talked new coolie no can stop this side: no savvy who-man he/ belong, sposey he steal."
"Join! How can you?
The Master had discharged a Dum-dum expression.
"I bogizyour pardon, dear; but those servants of yours are getting too insolent for words—even for such words as the one which offended you. I will not be bullied by my servants."
The Master was often inconsistent in his uso of possessive pronouns. When things went wrong they were the Mistress's: on rare occasions for congratulation, or expressions of authority, he would acknowledge his Mastership.
"I am sure I won't, dear. I have bought it with more than money. The man who thought the price of Liberty was merely eternal vigilance had never kept Chinese servants.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.