He is a privileged man.

The faithful old servant of thirty, forty, or fifty years, if with a tendency to be jealous, cross, and interfering, becomes a great trouble.
Still the relative position was the result of good feelings.

If the familiarity sometimes became a nuisance, it was a wholesome nuisance, and relic of a simpler time gone by.

But the case of the old servant, whether agreeable or troublesome, was often so fixed and established in the households of past days, that there was scarce a possibility of getting away from it.

The well-known story of the answer of one of these domestic tyrants to the irritated master, who was making an effort to free himself from the thraldom, shows the idea entertained, by _one_ of the parties at least, of the permanency of the tenure.