The cattle, when there were cattle, belonged to them.

They were in no respect subject to his orders, and he would have had a bad life among them were it not that they quarreled among themselves, and that in such quarrels he could belong to one party or to the other.
The house itself was a wretched place--out of order, with doors and windows and floors shattered, broken, and decayed.

There were none of womankind belonging to the family, and in such a house a decent woman-servant would have been out of her place.

Sometimes there was one hag there and sometimes another, and sometimes feminine aid less respectable than that of the hags.

There had been six sons.