The overseers domineered over them, and stormed at them as violently as though they were the most abject slaves.

They were allowed no privileges such as their former habits impelled them to seek.

If they played a flute in the hearing of the overseer, they were commanded to be silent instantly.

If they dared to put a gold ring on their finger, even that trifling pretension to gentility was detected and disallowed by the jealous overseer.

(These things were specified by Mr.G.himself.) They were seldom permitted to associate with the overseers as equals.