The servants considered her a sort of witch, and deprecated her displeasure.

Phillis had too much sense for this; yet there was one thing that she had often wondered at; that was, that Aunt Peggy cared nothing about religion.

When employed in the family, she had been obliged to go sometimes to church: since she had been old, and left to follow her own wishes, she had never gone.

Miss Janet frequently read the Bible, and explained it to her.

Alice, seated on a low stool by the old woman's side, read to her scenes in the life of Christ, upon which servants love to dwell.