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Her big breasts moved dully as she spoke, or she would stand, and the weight of her silences impressed itself on strangers. If the more sensitive amongst those she served or addressed, failed to look at Rose, it was because her manner seemed to accuse the conscience, or it could have been, more simply, that they were embarrassed by her harelip.  \n\"A foreigner?\" said her mistress, and her Sunday dress sighed. \"It can only be the German.\"  \nIt was now the young woman's duty to give some order. In the end she would perform that duty with authority and distinction, but she did always hesitate at first. She would seldom have come out of herself for choice, for she was happiest shut with her own thoughts, and such was the texture of her marble, few people ever guessed at these.  \n\"What will I do with this German gentleman?\" asked the harelip, which moved most fearfully.  \nThe flawless girl did not notice, however. She had been brought up with care, and preferred, also, to avoid an expression of longing in  \nher servant's eyes. She frowned rather formally.  \n\"We cannot expect Uncle for at least another hour,\" she said. \"I doubt whether they have reached the sermon.\"  \nThat strange, foreign men should come on a Sunday when she herself had ventured on a headache was quite exasperating.  \n\"I can put the gentleman in your uncle's study room. No one ever goes in there,\" said the servant. \"Except, there is no knowing, he could lay his hands on something.\"  \nThe squat woman's flat face suggested it had experienced, and understood, all manner of dishonesty, but was in the habit of contemplating such behaviour from a dull distance since she had become the slave of virtue.  \n\"No, Rose,\" said the girl her mistress, so firmly at last that the toe of her shoe thumped against her petticoats, set them sawing at one another, and the stiff skirt, of a deep, lustrous blue, added several syllables to her decision. \"There is no avoiding it, I can see. It would not be civil. You will show the gentleman in here.\"  \n\"If it is right,\" her thoughtful servant dared to suggest.  \nThe young woman, who was most conscientious in her needlework, noticed how she had overstitched. Oh, dear.  \n\"And, Rose,\" she added, by now completely her own mistress, \"after we have talked for a little, neither too long, nor too short, but decently, you will bring in the port wine, and some of my aunt's biscuits that she made yesterday, which are on the top shelf. Not the best port, but the second best. It is said to be quite nice. But make sure, Rose, that you do not wait too long, or the refreshment will arrive with my uncle and aunt, and it would be too confusing to have so much happen at once.\"  \n\"Yes, miss,\" said Rose, whose business it was not. \"Will you be taking a glass yourself?\"  \n\"You may bring one,\" said the young woman. \"I shall try a biscuit, but whether I shall join him in the wine I cannot yet say.\"  \nThe servant's skirts were already in motion. She wore a dress of brown stuff, that was most marvellously suited to her squat body.  \n\"Oh, and Rose,\" called the young woman, \"do not forget to announce  \nMr. Voss on showing him into the room.\"\"Mr. Voss? That is the gentleman's name?\"  \n\"If it is the German,\" replied the girl, who was left to consider her embroidery frame.  \nThe room in which she sat was rather large, darkened by the furniture, of which the masses of mellow wood tended to daunt  \n«•§ 5  \nintruding light, although here and there, the surface of a striped mirror, or beaded stool, or some object in cut","cbCaiuFLJfSc64NJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuFLJfSc64NJ","pdf",1292937,561,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Laura receives a foreign visitor\n## Rose’s instructions and household etiquette\n## Laura’s inner beliefs and private torment","[{\"question\":\"Why does Laura hesitate before giving orders to Rose?\",\"answer\":\"Laura hesitates because she is usually happiest absorbed in her own thoughts, and she does not readily emerge for choice, even though she is conscientious.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is the expected visitor, according to Laura and Rose?\",\"answer\":\"They suspect the visitor is German and identify him by name as Mr. Voss, whom Rose will announce when shown in.\"},{\"question\":\"What makes Laura’s situation on Sunday particularly exasperating?\",\"answer\":\"The unexpected arrival of the foreign man during a day when Laura herself had intended to deal with a headache adds frustration to her plans.\"}]","Chapter 1 - There is a man here, miss, asking for your uncle | PDF",864]