Hall, Teecie Ray's was simply intolerable. A I spirit less brave must have been cowed and bro ken by it: a nature less delicate must have been blunted and made coarser. The servants openly neglected her, the children used her as they pleased ; wreaked their humors on her, sparing neither blow nor taunt in their passions, and demanding from her at all times whatever ser ▼fee it suited their capricious fancy to need