In a kitchen of moderate size, flagged with slate, humble in its appointments, yet lookingscarcely that of a farmhouse-for there were utensils about it indicating necessities moreartificial than usually grow upon a farm-with the corner of a white deal table betweenthem, sat two young people evidently different in rank, and meeting upon no level offriendship. The young woman held in her hand a paper, which seemed the subject of theirconversation. She was about four- or five-and-twenty, well grown and not ungraceful, withdark hair, dark hazel eyes, and rather large, handsome features, full of intelligence, but alittle hard, and not a little regnant-as such features must be, except after prolongedinfluence of a heart potent in self-subjugation. As to her social expression, it was a minglingof the gentlewoman of education, and the farmer's daughter supreme over the householdand its share in the labor of production
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