I suppose you will get Mrs.Addix ?" "They tell me she is about the best woman for house-cleaning," said Harry, rather helplessly.

He was so unaccustomed to even giving a thought to household details, that he had a vague sense of self-pity because he was now obliged to do so.

His lost Abby occasionally, he believed, had employed this Mrs.Addix, but she had never troubled him about it.
It thus happened that every evening little Maria Edgham sat guarded, as it were, by Mrs.Addix.

Mrs.Addix was of the poor-white race, like the Manns--in fact, she was distantly related to them.

They were nearly all distantly related, which may have accounted for their partial degeneracy.