I want to be your servant even in heaven.' Now why, Helen, do you suppose that faithful old servant was so strongly attached to Oberlin ?" "Because, I presume, he had been uniformly kind to her." "No doubt that was the principal reason.

And that I presume is the reason why there is no domestic in our house who will not, at any time, do for me cheerfully, and with a seeming pleasure, any thing I ask of her.

I am sure I never spoke cross to one of them in my life--and I make it a point never to ask them to do for me what I can readily do for myself." "Your mother must be very fortunate in her selection of servants.
There, I presume, lies the secret.

We never had one who would bear the least consideration.

Indeed, ma makes it a rule on no account to grant a servant any indulgences whatever, it only spoils them, she says.