He hired a battery of staff to help him with the daily chores, including a scullion (dishwasher), a laundress and a shoeblack (someone who cleans shoes).
Lucie scrambled up the stile with the bundle in her hand; and then she turned to say " Good-night, " and to thank the washer-woman—But what a very odd thing!
" And, ma’am, " he continued, " the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one" .
Poor as he is, he didn't forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him. I was so glad of that.