Digital heart book

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"We do not use those titles now," she interrupted. "Call me Zenith, the
name by which I was introduced to you. I suppose Thorwald has told you
that electricity does nearly all our work. I arrange things in order
before the meal begins, and then by merely touching a button under the
table the apparatus is set in motion which brings and takes away
everything in the manner you see."
"It is wonderful," I exclaimed. "And if we are to believe all that
Thorwald has told us, I suppose you have no servants for any department of
work."
"You are not entirely right," she returned. "We have excellent servants.
This obedient power, that does our work so willingly, is our servant, and
so is the mechanism with which our houses are filled, and through which
this silent force is exerted. Many of our animals are domesticated and
trained to do light services, but as for servants of our own flesh and
blood, no such class exists. We all share whatever work there is, and no
labor is menial. Whatever I ask others to do I am glad to do for them when
occasion offers.


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