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“Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom”

Sometimes Would Be Used Reading Next Water Hours Rooms Doors Expected Cures Servant Boredom Bags Stations Rats Railway Soda Rush Hour Windsor Railway Station Toffee

Author:Tahir Shah

“A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.”

Action Law Rooms Divine Fine Servant Clauses Drudgery

Author:George Herbert

“All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.”

Literature Waiting Rooms My Friends Seasons Silent Rounds Servant

Author:Bryan Procter

“The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.”

Men Reading Church Rooms Doors Racism Servant Hotel Halls Concerts Reading Room

Book:Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.”

Next Rooms Music Technology Masters Noise Servant Cleaning Cleaning Up

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.”

Children Book House Sleep Rooms Air Bed Opposites Clouds Snow Broke Servant Dull Hung Grey Curtains Rawness

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)