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coach. She found Mrs. Caswell to be
a cold, haughty, disagreeable woman ;
and Miss Augusta, her daughter, &
young lady of about fourteen years of
age, in all respects precisely like her
mother. Mr. Caswell was a good easy
soul, who never attempted to interfere
with any of his wife's arrangements, or
even with any of his own, when she was
present; so that, though really a very
kind-hearted man, he never dared to
say a kind word to Maggy-

But old Diana, the cook, was very
good to her, for Diana had a little girl
of her own, of about Maggy s age, whom
she had not seen for two or three years.