Fireside Stories (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Fireside Stories In a small, but genteel little country town, situated in a fertile, and populous part of England, lived the Rev. Joseph Middleton, the respected and worthy minister of a religion, whose principles of order, peace, and harmony, were exemplified by his whole household. It was a frequent, and familiar observation in the town where they lived, that Mrs. Middleton was always fortunate in finding excellent servants, but the secret of this good fortune was, that the servants of Mrs. Middleton were expected to be but human, that they Were treated kindly, and that if not exactly all their mistress could desire, pains were studiously taken to make them better in her service than she had found them. And the same system pervaded her domestic management throughout: so that when the worthy minister came home, fatigued with his pastoral duties, he was sure to find a clean hearth, with cheerful faces all around It, his favorite chair drawn out into the place he liked to fill, and such creature-comforts spread before him, as the heart of man knows well how to value - we will not say at their true worth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.