The news of your contumacy will spread like prairie fires.

You will be baited and banned beyond endurance." "But--my duty to my neighbor ?" "Thanks to the prevailing rule in these affairs, your neighbor knows how little a written reference is worth.

She will satisfy the proprieties by reading it, and form her own opinion of the girl.

When Katy has worn out her saucepans and patience, your successor in misfortune will give her clean papers to the next place.

It is a sort of endless chain of suffering.