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| 11 | 489 | View more quotes about happily">Happily, the woman's pleasant, dismissive tone of voice had been absolutely clear. |
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| 11 | 486 | "Good-bye, Ellen," called the woman in the off-the-shoulder gown, sweetly. |
| 11 | 487 | "Good-bye, Ma'am. |
| 11 | 488 | Thank you, Ma'am," said Ellen. |
| 11 | 489 | Happily, the woman's pleasant, dismissive tone of voice had been absolutely clear. |
| 11 | 490 | Else Ellen might have been terribly frightened. |
| 11 | 491 | But the utterance had clearly involved no suggested recognition of Ellen as a person, suggesting that she might be a human being in her own right, instead of the animal she was, for that would have been improper, and would have frightened Ellen, particularly as she was in the presence of her master. |
| 11 | 492 | But, happily, the utterance had been no more than a casually generous, almost thoughtless, unbegrudged gift from a superior to an inferior. |