I knocked, and the door was opened by the same heavy, over-grown housemaid, whose lumpish insensibility had tried my patience so severely on the day when I found the wounded dog. I had, since that time, discovered that her name was Margaret Porcher, and that she was the most awkward, slatternly, and obstinate servant in the house.
(from The Woman In White, by William Wilkie Collins)
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