Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Social Distinction, or Hearts and Homes
Just in proportion as Michael Staunton abhorred all falsehood and deception, his admiration and his praise were directed to honesty, and truth. Acting upon this prin ciple, he had married his servant for his second wife be cause, as he said, he could not find another honest woman, and he could not live alone. After the marriage of his last daughter, he had tried two or three lady housekeepers; but the remarks he made upon their manners towards himself were by no means complimentary to the sex. He wanted, he said, some one to be kind to him in his old age, but kind in such a way as not to make him remember that he was the owner of a large estate, and had yet to make his will. He thought he had found this in one of the loveliest, and most faithful, of the class who labour for their daily bread.
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