"There's Mr.Bates'll be here; that will be six of 'em; and that Mr.Medlicot will want somebody to do every thing for him, because he's been and got hisself smashed.

And there's the old lady has just come out from home, and is as particular as any thing.

And Mr.Harry himself never thinks of things at all.

One pair of hands, and them very old, can't do every thing for every body." All of which was very well understood to mean nothing at all.
Household deficiencies--and, indeed, all deficiencies--are considerable or insignificant in accordance with the aspirations of those concerned.

When a man has a regiment of servants in his dining-room, with beautifully cut glass, a forest of flowers, and an iceberg in the middle of his table if the weather be hot, his guests will think themselves ill used and badly fed if aught in the banquet be astray.