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' How do you like your new governess ? asked an inquisitive friend , addressing the fashionable Mrs . Vernon . ' The question is , how do Celia and Emma like her / replied €
the lady . She has been here above a jnonth ; yet I have scarcely seen anything of her . My engagements are so numerous—my circle s * immense , and you know nothing can be dope without me But do not imagine that I neglect my domestic duties . I see the cook every day . Mr . Vernon is very particular about his table , and I remind our " maitre de cuisine" continually of that . *
( I ' What an exemplary wife , ' muttered Miss Allen , her friend . ' Then , ' resumed Mrs . Vernon , I see the housekeeper once a month ; yet I cannot entirely keep oflf tradespeople ; ' especially those employed for myself and ma maison . You know in every thing my taste is my own ; I invent everything—dispose every thing—I can leave very little , either as regards my dress or drawing rooms , to others . So that — - — but I am absolutely boring you with my affairs , and it is quite enough that they bore me . '
c Nay , nay , I assure you / said Miss Allen , ' I am quite interested . And so what with cook and confectioner , upholsterer and perfumer , dress and decoration , you do not see the governess once a month € Nor even T that / rejoined the lady . ' Only just look at my list
of engagements . Behold my table ! Thus it is strewn every morning . Here is a letter from Lady Lucas : can you conceive a greater piece of inhumanity than to send me all this quantity of manuscript under the name of a letter V ' ' Let me read it to you / said Miss Allen .
My dear creature ! I would sooner sit and watch the unrolling of a mummy . Then , only see the notes , cards , and communications , of one kind or another . I often tell Mr . Vernon , that large as our establishment already is , he must add one more individual to it , and that is a secretary for myself . ' c But / exclaimed Miss Allen , ' I hope you have not done vour
recital , I have heard nothing yet of the nursery . ' Ha ! ha ! ha ! ' laughed Mrs . Vernon , ' " Forgot , by Jupiter !" as Coriolanus says . Really , my love , 1 know as little of the nursery as of the laundry . I have only three little ones now : Edward and James are at Harrow . Barnes , the upper nurse , is an excellent creature ; quite a superior woman ; one whom you would think it impossible to find in her class . Very fortunate that , is it not ? I allow her a servant , besides the under nurse .
All that I feaT is , that she is too indulgent ; for a more riotous set of little rogues than my three youngest never were admitted to a dining room . Sometimes , papa and I cannot support their company after dinner , longer than five or ten minutes at a tiaie . '
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SKETCHES OF DOMESTIC LIFfc . —KTd . III . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/14/
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