But it was not every young woman who could live with her.

A rigidity as to hours, as to religious exercises, and as to dress, was exacted, under which many poor girls altogether broke down; but they who could stand this rigidity came to know that their places were very valuable.

No one belonging to them need want for aught, when once the good opinion of Miss Stanbury had been earned.

When once she believed in her servant there was nobody like that servant.

There was not a man in Exeter could clean a boot except Giles Hickbody,--and if not in Exeter, then where else?
And her own maid Martha, who had lived with her now for twenty years, and who had come with her to the brick house when she first inhabited it, was such a woman that no other servant anywhere was fit to hold a candle to her.