rank, malice, and fashionable ill-breeding of the latter, " Jukes," as she came to
be termed among us, decidedly had the best of the ... She was shrewd and
observant ; robust in health and person, she had a certain generosity of temper
which always led her to take the part of the oppressed. ... Perhaps I thought, he
had been imprisoned for debt, and had made his escape from jail, and so might
wish to ...
