And just as if Mammy could love her little dirty babies as I love Eva! Yet St.Clare once really and soberly tried to persuade me that it was my duty, with my weak health, and all I suffer, to let Mammy go back, and take somebody else in her place.

That was a little too much even for _me_ to bear.

I don't often show my feelings, I make it a principle to endure everything in silence; it's a wife's hard lot, and I bear it.

But I did break out, that time; so that he has never alluded to the subject since.

But I know by his looks, and little things that he says, that he thinks so as much as ever; and it's so trying, so provoking!" Miss Ophelia looked very much as if she was afraid she should say something; but she rattled away with her needles in a way that had volumes of meaning in it, if Marie could only have understood it.
"So, you just see," she continued, "what you've got to manage.