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her loud voice, free manners and frolicsome disposition,
seemed to challenge familiarity, and to provoke impertinence.
Lucy would have very gladly dispenced with her visitations
to the nursery, where she threw every thing into confusion and would
if she could, have engrossed all her time;
she took care frequently to insinuate that she was confering
a great favour on Lucy by letting her self down to sit in the
same room with a person that had behaved as she had done,
but added, she was not one of those that could not pity
poor frail creatures; she pitied them sincerely when they were humble,
and to show that she realy did pity nurse, she would sometimes
let her assist her in her work etc--Gladly would the
poor girl have excused her giving such proofs of her com-
passion; but sunk, degraded as she felt herself, she had
no spirit to resist, she could only oppose in silence, to the con-
tempt and ill treatment she occasionally met with. This silence,
this submission