'
In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.
In the nurse's class it is extremely rare. Her opinion of the man
who had deceived and deserted her mistress remained the same
opinion still, perfectly undisturbed by the passing circumstance
of the legacy.
'I wonder who reminded my lord of the old servants?' she said.
'He would never have heart enough to remember them himself!'
Agnes suddenly interposed. Nature, always abhorring monotony,
institutes reserves of temper as elements in the composition of the
gentlest women living. Even Agnes could, on rare occasions, be angry.
The nurse's view of Montbarry's character seemed to have provoked
her beyond endurance.
'If you have any sense of shame in you,' she broke out, 'you ought
to be ashamed of what you have just said! Your ingratitude disgusts me.
I leave you to speak with her, Henry--you won't mind it!'
With this significant intimation that he too had dropped out of his
customary place in her good opinion, she left the room.
The nurse received the smart reproof administered to her with
every appearance of feeling rather amused by it than not.
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