ARRANGEMENTS OF MATRIMONY 177 relic of old days of slavery, when power even over life and death seemed to involve some amount of a compensating obligation, and the absence of responsibility for actions or thoughts on the part of the servant required an assumption of this by the master.

If he be wronged—particularly, of course, by a fellow-domestic— he comes naturally to his employer to be assisted, and in some instances is apparently willing to allow his life to be more or less regulated by his master. I have been told, in the case of the latter being much trusted, that having more or less by innuendo given it to be understood that he had a desire to get married, a servant may patiently wait for his master to " find " the wife (who has generally, nevertheless, been delicately indicated), and on receiving the information that one has been chosen or found, and that he could marry her, may reply with an impassive face, looking directly before him without changing a muscle : " Haddir, EfFendi " (Ready, sir) ; " I will not disobey your commands "—ostensibly taking the information as an ordinary order or instruction, all in the day's work, and to be carried out without question. All the time he would be bursting with delight at, perhaps, getting the very girl he had coveted.

There is no question of courtship, and, probably, at first Uttle affection in the matter ; it is a matter of physical appreciation in most instances, with judgment as to utiUty thrown in. For woman is 12