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"No, my lady; perhaps a little later----"

"Well, I'll see," said Lady Luce irritably "I don't suppose you could

do any good if you were to go home; I suppose there's some one to look

after your mother; and, after all, she may not be so bad as you think

Servants always look at the worst side of things, and meet troubles

halfway"

"Yes, oodness' sake, try and look irl!

It's like having a ghost behind

yourself about your mother you can't dress ht--of all nights!"

She leaned back and sht no more

of the maid's pale and anxious one Had she been not so entirely

heartless, had she even only affected a little interest and expressed

soht have broken down and confessed her

share in the

sympathy with a servant In her eyes servants were of quite a different

order of creation to that of her own class; hewers of wood and drawers

of water, of no account beyond that which they gained from their value