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"Will that beast never go to bed -- even there, I mind, she used to sleep with an eye open and an ear cocked -- and nowhere safe from her never -- here and there, up and down, without a stir or a breath, like a ghost or a devil? " -- thought Mrs. Tarnley. "Thank God, she's blind now, that will quiet her."
Mildred was afraid of that woman. It was not only that she was cold and hard, but she was so awfully violent and wicked.