nearest book meme
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jlrpuck.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest
"A superior lady's maid would work for one lady only and any request to attend two or more would precipitate the sort of trouble which occurred in The Admirable Crichton. In a pretentious household, even a child of seven or eight might have her own maid, but in less wealthy establishments one lady's maid would be expected to look after two, or even three, daughters.
The most vivacious ladies' maids were French, but they had their inbuilt disadvantages, not least at times of international crisis. In the invasion scare of 1803 Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire, was called to the Aliens Office to justify her employment of French maids at Devonshire House and had to put up quite a spirited fight to retain them."
This would be from E.S. Turner's What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem, which is precisely as silly as it sounds. Until a few minutes ago, it was hiding under my pillow. I should probably take it back to the library now.
jlrpuck.1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest
"A superior lady's maid would work for one lady only and any request to attend two or more would precipitate the sort of trouble which occurred in The Admirable Crichton. In a pretentious household, even a child of seven or eight might have her own maid, but in less wealthy establishments one lady's maid would be expected to look after two, or even three, daughters.
The most vivacious ladies' maids were French, but they had their inbuilt disadvantages, not least at times of international crisis. In the invasion scare of 1803 Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire, was called to the Aliens Office to justify her employment of French maids at Devonshire House and had to put up quite a spirited fight to retain them."
This would be from E.S. Turner's What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem, which is precisely as silly as it sounds. Until a few minutes ago, it was hiding under my pillow. I should probably take it back to the library now.