>>And you wouldn't have wanted to be a "maid of all works"; they had to do everything from clering out and relighting the range every day, to scubbing floors, making beds, helping prepare food, usw.
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>Spoken like a true European... "und so weiter", sagst du?
Jah, das ist richtig
>Thought I wouldn't notice, pay expensive attention etc, stb, itd.
Expensive attention?
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.