1 The servants were gone to a neighbouring fair.
2 A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.
3 We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.
4 I told the servants not to disturb the family, and went into the library to attend their usual hour of rising.
5 Felix and Agatha spent more time in amusement and conversation, and were assisted in their labours by servants.
6 The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farmhouse servants to be.
7 The servant instantly showed it to one of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended.
8 He intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confidential servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn.
9 Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.
10 During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had discovered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.
11 The picture was then produced which the servant had found in her pocket; and when Elizabeth, in a faltering voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and indignation filled the court.
12 During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several letters that he received from this lovely girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French.