[Novel Notes by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookNovel Notes CHAPTER X 7/31
We don't make 'em, you know: you can't have 'em if we haven't got 'em, can you? Come earlier next time." Then he would hurry away to escape further importunity; and the police, who appeared to have been waiting for this moment with gloating anticipation, would jeeringly hustle away the weeping remnant.
"Now then, pass along, you girls, pass along," they would say, in that irritatingly unsympathetic voice of theirs.
"You've had your chance. Can't have the roadway blocked up all the afternoon with this 'ere demonstration of the unloved.
Pass along." In connection with this same barracks, our char-woman told Amenda, who told Ethelbertha, who told me a story, which I now told the boys. Into a certain house, in a certain street in the neighbourhood, there moved one day a certain family.
Their servant had left them--most of their servants did at the end of a week--and the day after the moving-in an advertisement for a domestic was drawn up and sent to the _Chronicle_. It ran thus: WANTED, GENERAL SERVANT, in small family of eleven.
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