If the little ladies were his sisters, both must be dead; if not, I did not know who they were.

I felt very angry with the housekeeper for her sulky reticence.
I was also not highly pleased by her manner of treating me, for she evidently took me for one of the Sunday-school boys.

I fear it was partly a shabby pride on this point which led me to "tip" her with half-a-crown on my own account when we were taking leave.

In a moment she became civil to slavishness, hoped I had enjoyed myself, and professed her willingness to show me anything about the place any day when there were not so "many of them school children crowging and putting a body out, sir.

There's such a many common people comes, sir," she added, "I'm quite wored out, and having no need to be in service, and all my friends a-begging of me to leave.