text:  She was known to every body and by the surrounding peasantry (to whom she ever came with her purse or prescriptions of pots of jam warm jackets and flannel bed-gowns a living and lovely Replevin for many of her sire's exactions) she was treated with a fond regard which can only be estimated by those who know how largely the smallest loan of kindness--of real _disinterested_ kindness--is repaid by that people