If I had ever been harsh or unjust to you, if I had made your life unhappy by caprice or by severity, I could understand.

But you of all have had least reason to complain.

Not Enva's jealous temper, not Leenoo's spite, ever suggested to them the idea which came so easily and was so long and deliberately cherished in your breast." She rose and faced me, and there was something of contempt in the eyes that answered mine for this once with the old fearless frankness.
"I had no reason to hate you?
Not certainly for the kind of injury which commonly provokes women to risk the lives their masters have made intolerable.

That your discipline was the lightest ever known in a household, I need not tell you.

That it fell more lightly, if somewhat oftener, on me than on others, you know as well as I.Put all the correction or reproof I ever received from you into one, and repeat it daily, and never should I have complained, much less dreamed of revenge.