Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

Name: Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13
Author: Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

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“Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13”, published in 1897, is a work by Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys. It explores elements such as Tibbie Minch, ye're and bath.

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ Perhaps that has also undergone some alteration under your management?"
"If you want a bath, you'll have to take it in the kitchen," snapped her aunt. "Tibbie will not be carrying water up two flights o' stairs for any one!"
"What!" exclaimed Margaret.
A paroxysm of coughing shook her. She leant against the table, unable to speak. "Do you mean to say," she gasped at last, " that you allow a servant to dictate to you in this fashion? Won't take up water! . . . I never heard of such a thing — never! It only proves, Aunt Catherine, that you are utterly incapable of managing a house ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ There were godly women and pious women of old who had mixed in the fray, and even slain an enemy. Who was she that she should shrink from profiting by example?
Tibbie Minch appeared in answer to the summons, and saw in a moment that contention was again the order of the day.
"Tibbie," said Margaret quietly, "I want a hot bath; my cold is very bad. Will you take a can of hot water and some mustard to my room, in half an hour's time?"
"I'm nae used to carrying heavy cans up and doon the stairs," said Tibbie shortly. "The mistress there aye takes her bath in the kitchen after I've gone to bed. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ I winna do for a stranger what I hae refused, to the mistress. It wouldna be consistent, and I'm aye strong for principle. Ye're a young thing, and headstrong like, Mistress Weimar, but gin yell tak' a word o' advice that's weel meant and sensible, ye'U juist — "
"If you don't choose to obey orders," interrupted Margaret, " I'll thank you to keep your place, and your advice also. In half an hour I shall come down for that hot water. Is the bath up-stairs in its old place?" ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ A knock at the door roused her at last, and to her surprise, Tibbie Minch walked in, with a cup of gruel in her hand and a canister of mustard.
"I've kept my word," she said; " but I canna do more for ye than this. It would be a preecedent, ye ken, and Mistress Macpherson would be expectin' the like. But, Lord sakes, mem, ye do look ill. Be sensible like, and get ye into yer bed.
That way o' breathing is nae richt. It's a threetening o' broncheetis ye're getting. I ken it weel. My blither Jock at hame, he had it, and a sair time we had wi' him, the puir callant." ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ But if she has a nurse you needn't run any risks ; and be sure you keep your brother out of the room. I'm glad you lost no time in sending for me. A few hours' delay would have made a serious difference. ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ Weel, weel," said Tibbie penitentlyj " you've no had a warm welcome, I'm thinkin' ; but gin ye're to be ill, I'll aye do my best for ye. I'm no unfeelin', whatever ye may think. There's doggies whose bark is waur than their bite ; and, perhaps, Tibbie Minch is ane o' them."
She had been bustling about all this time, had turned down the bed-clothes, put ready a warm dressing-gown, and then commenced to make the mustard poultice with a piece of linen she had brought up with her.
Neither she nor Margaret mentioned the bath. The one from sheer inability to fulfil her threat ”

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Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, Good Mrs Hypocrite — Chapter 13 (1897)

“ I'd just tak' my bath where it was, and where the water was handy. But young folk hae nae sense, and ye canna mak' them see things in a richt way, if they're na minded to. So I'll juist mak' up the fire, mem, and ye can aye please yersel' aboot the manner o' yer bath, sin' ye're too prood to be advised."
"Well I " exclaimed Margaret as the door closed, "for downright discourtesy and inhospitality I shall in future place my own nation in the first rank. Never in the whole course of my life, never among strangers or foreigners, have I ex- perienced such treatment. ”

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