Hepsie

Hepsie had been very happy in this house and had been proud of a chance to keep its well supplied shelves in satisfactory condition.

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"Come on in and sit down," he urged when he saw that Elizabeth intended to help Hepsie with the dishes.

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It was well that Elizabeth's mind was occupied with Hepsie while she bathed and cooled her swollen eyelids.

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Hepsie knew that first reports went farthest with country folk, and Luther, who understood better than any one else why the money had been left to Elizabeth, was inwardly amused at Sadie's explanations afterward.

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Neither Hepsie nor any other girl they could get in that country was going to have her work inspected as if she were a slave.

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"Why, I thought Hepsie and I could care for her," John replied.

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Hepsie was to fight Elizabeth's battles on many occasions and stayed on, watchful as a hawk of Elizabeth's reputation.

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John was usually so clever about keeping out of sight when he insisted upon anything unpleasant that it had never occurred to Elizabeth that Hepsie was aware that John insisted upon having her do things which he felt that Hepsie could not be trusted to do unwatched.

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In her surprised consideration of what Hepsie would think if she should hear Hugh pass her door at that hour, she got the first burst of light on the subject.

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A sly joke among the hired men while discussing their position in the house of "the grass-widder" drove Hepsie beside herself and made her even more ready than she had been at first to serve the interests of one who was to have no easy time among her jealous neighbours.

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