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" ... supply all demands of this nature; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed... "
The Hobart Town Magazine - Page 263
1834
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The journal of a voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, from original ...

mrs. Augustus Prinsep - 1833 - 136 pages
...once from a cold comfortless ship into a comfortable house and society, naturally put me into good humour with the place. The beauty of the scenery,...board and lodge us all for six months, at the rate of 25Z. a month. This was reasonable, compared with the expensive hotel, but the situation was too bleak...
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The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land: Comprising a ...

Augustus Prinsep, Mrs. Augustus Prinsep - Straits Settlements - 1833 - 144 pages
...once from a cold comfortless ship into a comfortable house and society, naturally put me into good humour with the place. The beauty of the scenery,...board and lodge us all for six months, at the rate of 25Z. a month. This was reasonable, compared with the expensive hotel, but the situation was too bleak...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ...

Asia - 1833 - 824 pages
...better known." If the history of every house were made public, she observes, it would make Europeans shudder. " Even in our small menage, our cook has...bigamy: but these formidable truths are hushed up!" This article would be incomplete without some notice of the islands in what may be termed the Australasian...
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The National standard, of literature, science, music [&c.] ed. by ..., Volume 1

Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every IMMUC were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage our cook ha» committed murder, oar footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy '. But these formidable truths...
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The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South ...

John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 270 pages
...extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemen's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy I" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption...
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The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South ...

John Stephens - South Australia - 1839 - 268 pages
...called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house wefe made public, you would shudder; even in our small...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption...
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Chambers's Papers for the People, Volume 6

Arts - 1850 - 268 pages
...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — ' Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy!' It is only lair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — ' It is...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 7-12

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 pages
...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — ' Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy!' It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — ' It is...
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The Yankee Enterprise: Or The Two Millionaires; and Other Thrilling Tales

Moulton Hampton (pseud.?), Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - Africa, North - 1855 - 336 pages
...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — " Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! " It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — "It...
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The Mirror of the World: Or, Stories from All Climes

Moulton Hampton, Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - Australian fiction - 1856 - 332 pages
...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — " Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! " It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — "It...
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