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 ing every way around to find some meaning for what she did not comprehend, could only utter a faint "Ma'am!" in a tone of so much fear and distress, that Juliet, unable, silently, to witness oppression so wanton, came forward to say, "The poor child, Ma'am, only wishes to understand your commands, that she may obey them."

"O! they are not clear, I suppose? They are too abstruse, I imagine?" contemptuously replied Mrs. Ireton. "And you, who are kind enough to offer yourself for my companion; who think yourself sufficiently accomplished to amuse,—perhaps instruct me,—you, also, have not the wit to find out, what a little chit of an ordinary girl can do better with her hands, than to stand still, pulling her own fingers?"

Juliet, now, believing that she had discovered what was meant, kindly took the little girl by the arm, and pointed to the just overturned water-bason of the dog.