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Updated: October 8, 2026
He was a good master, paid his servants their wages with unfailing punctuality, and gave very little trouble. But he was the last person in the world upon whom a garrulous woman could venture to inflict her rambling discourse; as Nancy Woolper by courtesy, Mrs. Woolper was fain to confess to her next-door neighbour, Mrs. Magson, when her master was the subject of an afternoon gossip.
Magson, at No. 13, was a humble letter of lodgings, always more or less in arrear with the demands of quarter-day; and it seemed a hard thing that her door-steps, whereon were expended much labour and hearthstone not to mention house-flannel, which was in itself no unimportant item in the annual expenses should be always thrown in the shade by the surpassing purity of the steps before No. 14.