The book The White Slave; Or, the Russian Peasant Girl 2 was written by author Henningsen, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1815-1877 Here you can read free online of The White Slave; Or, the Russian Peasant Girl 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The White Slave; Or, the Russian Peasant Girl 2 a good or bad book?
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189 " Now, how would one of those fur shubes serve you for the cold weather ?" " It wouldn't serve me no how, Sir, no more than I wouldn't serve a Rooshian gentleman," replied Bob, with rising acrimony, for he was very sensitive on the subject of any projected innovation of costume, and looked with a suspi- cious eye on all that might be held to indi- cate it. " Well," said the Count, " don't be afraid ; no one will force you to wear one, but I cannot exactly see why you should shew such marked... disinclination to serve a Russian master. What- ever may be the peculiar qualities of the Rus- sians, they are generous enough and affable enough to their servants." " I know it," answered Bob, " and that is just it ; they not only talks friendly and familiar like to their French cooks and walleys, but even makes hail fellow-well-met with their English grooms and coachmen, shakes hands with 'em and asks 'em to sit down, when they so far for- gets their selves as to submit to it. Now it don't make a groom a bit more 'spectable for sitting hob and nob with his master, but it does to be serving a master as every body respects, which that ain't the way to get 'em to do, and it is agrawating to a man as don't wish to step out 190 THE WHITE SLAVE.
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