"We Always Looked Upon That As Belonging
Entirely To The Nobility And Gentry." At This My Back Began To Bristle,
But I Didn't Let Her Know It, And I Said, In A Tone Of Emphatic
Mildness, That We Would Have Whitebait Twice A Week, On Tuesday And
Friday.
At this Miss Pondar gave a little courtesy and thanked me very
much, and said she would attend to it.
When Jone and me came back after taking a long walk that morning I saw
a pair of Church of England prayer-books, looking as if they had just
been neatly dusted, lying on the parlor table, where they hadn't been
before, for I had carefully looked over every book. I think that when
it was borne in upon Miss Pondar's soul that we was accustomed to
having whitebait as a regular thing she made up her mind we was all
right, and that nothing but the Established Church would do for us.
Before, she might have thought we was Wesleyans.
Our maid Hannah is very nice to look at, and does her work as well as
anybody could do it, and, like most other English servants, she's in a
state of never-ending thankfulness, but as I can never understand a
word she says except "Thank you very much," I asked Jone if he didn't
think it would be a good thing for me to try to teach her a little
English.
"Now then," said he, "that's the opening of a big subject.
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