The Upholstered Cage
The Upholstered Cage
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I knew of a cook-general who took about with her the photograph of her cousin in a Court presentation dress. There was no particular reason to doubt that they were cousins ; the cousin had perhaps married the mayor of a provincial town, and as mayoress she was eligible for presentation ; the other woman, the cook, was stupid and in- capable, and no doubt on the death of her parents found herself without a penny, and having tried to be a companion and failed, drifted into an unskilled incapable ...servant-of-all-work. The duties of a companion are not very definite ; it generally means being on hand to do small jobs and being invariably prepared to play up to the moods of her employer, to conceal her own feelings of fatigue or irritability, and, hardest of all, to re- ceive with a great show of friendliness all the inti- mate friends and relations who are utter strangers to the companion. She must adapt herself to her employer's ways, views, and peculiarities ; and if she had had a previous training of knocking about the world and holding her own with men and women the position would not be so bad, for with such a training she could adapt herself, and reject or accept without too much friction ; but when we remember that the companion has not had such a training if she had she would not be a companion on the THE GIRL GROWN OLD 247 contrary, her total lack of Vusage du monde has plated her in this position, so that she positively dare not say boo to a beetle ; and if her employer is one of those women who must peck at and harass someone temporarily in her power, then it will be seen that there appears no hope but from the grave.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I knew of a cook-general who took about with her the photograph of her cousin in a Court presentation dress. There was no particular reason to doubt that they were cousins ; the cousin had perhaps married the mayor of a provincial town, and as mayoress she was eligible for presentation ; the other woman, the cook, was stupid and in- capable, and no doubt on the death of her parents found herself without a penny, and having tried to be a companion and failed, drifted into an unskilled incapable ...servant-of-all-work. The duties of a companion are not very definite ; it generally means being on hand to do small jobs and being invariably prepared to play up to the moods of her employer, to conceal her own feelings of fatigue or irritability, and, hardest of all, to re- ceive with a great show of friendliness all the inti- mate friends and relations who are utter strangers to the companion. She must adapt herself to her employer's ways, views, and peculiarities ; and if she had had a previous training of knocking about the world and holding her own with men and women the position would not be so bad, for with such a training she could adapt herself, and reject or accept without too much friction ; but when we remember that the companion has not had such a training if she had she would not be a companion on the THE GIRL GROWN OLD 247 contrary, her total lack of Vusage du monde has plated her in this position, so that she positively dare not say boo to a beetle ; and if her employer is one of those women who must peck at and harass someone temporarily in her power, then it will be seen that there appears no hope but from the grave.
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