id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-010 chapter-010 .txt text/plain 23709 851 66 This letter made my heart beat violently; after having for a year past been the subject of conversation of all Paris, the idea of presenting myself as a spectacle before Madam dHoudetot, made me tremble, and I had much difficulty to find sufficient courage to support that ceremony. Another man in the country-house of a friend, is served by his own servant, as well at table as in his chamber; he sends him to seek for everything he wants; having nothing directly to do with the servants of the house, not even seeing them, he gives them what he pleases, and when he thinks proper; but I, alone, and without a servant, was at the mercy of the servants of the house, of whom it was necessary to gain the good graces, that I might not have much to suffer; and being treated as the equal of their master, I was obliged to treat them accordingly, and better than another would have done, because, in fact, I stood in greater need of their services. ./cache/chapter-010.txt ./txt/chapter-010.txt