human
Shall I try and get you an Antwerp girl?
gpt
Merci du cadeau! was the answer.
human
An Antwerp girl would not stay here ten days, sneered at as she would be by all the young coquines in your factory; then softening,
gpt
You are very good, dear brother--excuse my petulance--but truly my domestic trials are severe, yet they are probably my destiny; for I recollect that our revered mother experienced similar sufferings, though she had the choice of all the best servants in Antwerp. Domestics are in all countries a spoiled and unruly set.