Justine, the Frank-Hearted Servant

Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower orders

being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.

A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.

Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant; a

condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance,

and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being. “After what I have said,

I dare say you well remember the heroine of my little tale: for Justine was a great favourite

of your’s; and I recollect you once remarked, that if you were in an ill-humour,