Ms. Dumas, her confidante, said that Daphne feared she would be used as a restavek — a child servant.
Children are cheaper and more pliant than adults; Ms. Bhandari said a family might pay a child servant only $40 a month, less than half the wage commonly paid to an adult, if such servants are paid at all.
Mr. Stevens's father inherited the name of an Americo-Liberian family, as they are called, and hence, the educational opportunities they were accorded, when he became their child servant.
So Satan just kills Job's children, servants, and livestock.
Her subjects, however, like her children, servants, critics, and dealers, were often cowed by her.
His wife died in Volume 1, and he has scattered over the pages the bones of his children, servants, tutors and hired hunters.
This is a lethal vision of the power struggles between men and women, parents and children, servants and those they serve.
Mr. Fisher says many rooms are small; this was the style in 1900 because wealthy tourists were accompanied by children, servants or secretaries who were housed in these small rooms.
How Ms. Greenfield convinced the Siegels to let her poke around their Florida manse – a rococo, 34,000-square-foot monstrosity stuffed with children, servants, clutter and eventually, after the help starts to thin, dog droppings – is a testament to either the filmmaker's wiles or the narcissism of her subjects.
