I could imagine easily how the poor girl must have been bewildered and hurt at her reception in that household--envied for her past while delivered defenceless to the tender mercies of people without any fineness either of feeling or mind, unable to understand her misery, grossly curious, mistaking her manner for disdain, her silent shrinking for pride.

The wife of the "odious person" was witless and fatuously conceited.

Of the two girls of the house one was pious and the other a romp; both were coarse-minded--if they may be credited with any mind at all.

The rather numerous men of the family were dense and grumpy, or dense and jocose.

None in that grubbing lot had enough humanity to leave her alone.