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Rh they'd have to go to the hospital, she'd have them put in a small room with only two or three others, and not in the common ward. And when they got married, she'd give them a good present, and be at their wedding herself, and not be ashamed to sit at the table with them.

She made her children have the same respect for them. She taught them to always say "please" and "thank you" whenever they asked for anything, and to always take off their hats to them when they met them on the street, if they were boys. She always told them, "Even if they are servants, they're every bit as good as you are," and if any of her children were ever impudent to them or anything, she'd punish them good and hard.

And sometimes servants are better to children than their own parents. Fräulein knew about a gentleman who, when his own wife died, married the governess of his children, and she was a much better mother to them than their own had been. Instead of spoiling them the way she did, she brought them up the way they should be, and everybody said that if they had been her own, she couldn't have done any better by them. Because it's all nonsense to say that step-mothers are always bad to children. Sometimes they are better to children than their own mothers, and the children learn to love them the way they did their own mother. Fräulein knew of just such a case, where the mother died when the children were babies, and they never knew that it wasn't their own mother, and only when they were twenty-one years of age did she tell them.

One time, Fräulein had a villa in London. It wasn't really hers, but the lady of the house and her husband were never there, and Fräulein had the house practically to herself. She had the right to use the horses and carriages as much as she pleased, and the servants took their orders from her, and really, the house was as good as her own.

It was really the most beautiful place. It was furnished all in white and gold. Downstairs, there was the kitchen, and the servants' dining-room. On the parlour floor, there was the hall, and in