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she occasionally met with. This silence,
and submissive meekness, availed her much with persons of
any tenderness or feeling; it not only shielded her from insult
but excited kindness and compassion, as in the case of Hetty,
who now came to her aid and saved her from the encroaching
and supercilious airs of Miss Blight, who like all persons of low and little
minds impose on the weak and humble. No one more sensibly felt,
or more clearly evinced the different feelings produced by the unassuming
modesty of Lucy, and the bold freedom of Miss Blight, then Hetty--a lady's
maid, is always a priviledged personage, and the master's favorite, one,
that yields not even to the mistress of the family, how as both
these characters were united in Hetty, she felt, and made others
feel the weight of her authority. She would bear no rival,
either her mistress or master and as Miss Rachel aspired to be
a favorite with both, she was the object of this girl's hatred and
ill will, even had she been more deserving of respect, might
have failed to command it. As it was, Hetty treated her with the
freedom of an equal, often indeed with the insolence of a superior--
While, to the unpretending Lucy, she was kind and respectful--