text:  Now a whisper arose in the family that a woman-servant who by accident was drawn off from her proper duties to attend my sister Jane for a day or two had on one occasion treated her harshly if not brutally; and as this ill treatment happened within two days of her death--so that the occasion of it must have been some fretfulness in the poor child caused by her sufferings--naturally there was a sense of awe diffused through the family