ould have come to this, he would have sworn worse oaths than ever, if that was possible!”’
Dixon had been so much accustomed to comment upon Mr. Hale’s proceedings to her mistress (who listened to her, or not, as she was in the humour), that she never noticed Margaret’s flashing eye and dilating nostril. To hear her father talked of in this way by a servant to her face!
‘Dixon,’ she said, in the low tone she always used when much excited, which had a sound in it as of some distant turmoil, or threatening storm breaking far away. ‘Dixon! you forget to whom you are speaking.’ She stood upright and firm on her feet now, confronting the waiting-maid, and fixing her with her steady discerning eye. ‘I am Mr. Hale’s daughter. Go! You have made a strange mistake, and one America Jerseys that I am sure your own Inter Milan Jerseys good feeling will make you sorry for when you think about it.’
Dixon hung irresolutely about the room for a minute or two. Margaret repeated, ‘You may leave me, Dixon. I wish you to go.’ Dixon did not know whether to resent these decided words or to cry; either course would have done with her mistress: but, as she said to herself, ‘Miss Margaret has a touch of the old gentleman about her, as well as poor Master Frederick; I wonder Luca Pellegrini Jersey where they get it from?’ and she, who would have resented such words from any one less haughty and determined in manner, was Borja Mayoral Jersey subdued enough to say, in a half humble, half injured tone:
‘Mayn’t I unfasten your gown, miss, and do your hair?’
‘No! not to-night, thank you.’ And Margaret gravely lighted her out of the room, and bolted the door. From henceforth Dixon Ecuador Drakt obeyed and admired Margaret. She Daniele Verde Jersey said it was because she was so like David Bingham Jersey poor Master Frederick; but the truth was, that Dixon, as do many others, liked to feel herself ruled by a powerful and decided nature.
Margaret needed all Dixon’s help in action, and silence in words; for, for some time, the latter thought it her duty to show her sense of affront by saying as little as possible to her yo |