Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

Name: Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11
Author: Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

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“Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11”, published in 1897, is a work by Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys. It explores elements such as Catherine Macpherson, Tibbie and comfort.

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ There is no tyrant so merciless as the slave who has thrown off his shackles to mount to power, and, after a long experience of servitude to others, Catherine Macpherson could not sufficiently revel in the delights of ruling in her turn.
For any one in the house to express a wish was quite enough to make her object to it. As "constant dropping wears away a stone," so did the "dropping" of her tongue and the nagging of her temper wear and fret her brother's very life. But he was not strong enough to resist her, and he never dreamt of complaining to his daughter. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ Margaret Weimar went up to her room that night feeling that she had never in all her life hitherto recognized what discomfort and inhospitality really amounted to. She crept shivering into her cold bed, and laid her head on the chilly linen pillow- case, and finally cried herself to sleep like a cowed and miserable child. She could not even take any comfort from the thought of the morrow, and the prospect of seeing her father. She felt instinctively that he would prove but a reed in the hand of Aunt Macpherson, her echo and mouth-piece. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ Tibbie Minch had been forbidden to light a fire in the spare room, and Catherine had made it as stiff and forbidding a chamber as her own vivid recollections of Barnes and the institute permitted. She had nailed texts about the walls, hung stiff white curtains at the window, and removed the pretty portieres and draperies and dressing-table ornaments. Anything more comfortless than it looked to a tired traveler coming from the horrors of a channel-crossing and a cold railway journey, could not well be imagined. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ The entrance of Tibbie with the tea cut short further adjectives. There was no silver tray, no best china, no Queen Anne service, for this visitor. Catherine Macpherson would have scorned to trouble herself to please her, now that there was nothing to be gained by it. Her footing was so sure, her power over her brother so absolute, that she knew perfectly well nothing but his death would ever give Margaret Weimar any place of authority. If she attempted to persuade him to dismiss her aunt, that good lady could at once call the doctor to her aid. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ Weimar," said Catherine sharply, "I'll just thank you to leave the place as it is. The house is not yours, nor the furniture either — yet. When you come into possession it will be time enough for meddling and 'pulling things together,' as you call it. Up to that time I'd have you remember that I am mistress here by my brother's wish, and that my alterations are quite to his liking." Margaret Weimar stared at her plain- spoken relative in astonishment. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ It would have been a dangerous liberty to allow any one less scrupulously honest and honorable than Catherine Macpherson, but she, of course, was above suspicion. However, she did not deem it necessary to inform Margaret Weimar of what she had done. There is no need to be too confidential to one's relatives, especially on matters where there might arise a difference of opinion.
At the end of this first year of Catherine's office, her niece suddenly announced that she was coming over for a month to London, and would stay with her father as a matter of course. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ He would certify that any change in his mode of life would be not only injurious, but dangerous, and as Margaret Weimar could not come and live here herself, the man's own sister was incontestably the right and proper person to look after him. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 11 (1897)

“ She's a queer body eno', and I ken ye'll no be the best o' freends, by all seeing. Deed, but she dings a'. I hae nae seen the equal o' her, Christian or no Christian 1 But just a word to ye, mem, and tak' it as ye please, for I canna bide longer, and my steak on the brander and the cold 'taties to fry. ”

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