Pray let me advise you, and commend to you a good girl; who lived with me three years, and can do everything, from dressing my hair to making a blanc-mange.

I only parted with her because she was sick, and now that she is well, her place is filled.

Try her, and do not make a servant of yourself.

It is not fitting that you should.' Grace was fond of giving advice, and had said more than she intended saying when she began, but Mrs.Tracy, though annoyed, was not angry, and consented to receive the girl who had lived at Brier Hill three years, and who, she reflected, could be of use to her in many ways.
While sitting there in her soiled working dress talking to the elegant Mrs.Atherton she had felt her inferiority more keenly than she had ever done before, while at the same time she was conscious that a new set of ideas and thoughts had taken possession of her, reawaking in her the germ of that ambition to be somebody which she had felt so often when a girl, and which now was to bud and blossom, and bear fruit a hundred fold.

She would take the girl, and from her learn the ways of the world as presented at Brier Hill.