1 But Martha was not at all crushed.
2 Martha began to rub her grate again.
3 "It's not mine," answered Martha stoutly.
4 Martha sat up on her heels again and stared.
5 She did not feel cross when Martha chattered away.
6 "Aye, that I do," answered Martha, cheerfully polishing away at the grate.
7 "That's because tha'rt not used to it," Martha said, going back to her hearth.
8 Martha, the young housemaid, who had just risen to her feet, looked and pointed also.
9 Well," said Martha, evidently not in the least aware that she was impudent, "it's time tha should learn.
10 Martha found her coat and hat for her and a pair of stout little boots and she showed her her way downstairs.
11 She sobbed so unrestrainedly that good-natured Yorkshire Martha was a little frightened and quite sorry for her.
12 Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
13 But she had always had a very small appetite, and she looked with something more than indifference at the first plate Martha set before her.
14 When Mary at last decided to get up, the clothes Martha took from the wardrobe were not the ones she had worn when she arrived the night before with Mrs. Medlock.
15 If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.
16 Martha had "buttoned up" her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.
17 If Martha had been a well-trained fine young lady's maid she would have been more subservient and respectful and would have known that it was her business to brush hair, and button boots, and pick things up and lay them away.
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