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Ladies who lived in a big house , with pictures and fine furniture , and everything handsome , must know better than farm-people who never saw anything but their cattle and their fields . `` And you '' -- the clear authoritative voice addressed Miss Toogood -- `` can you take round notices ? '' The speaker looked doubtfully at the woman 's lame foot and stick . Miss Toogood replied that she would be at Latchford by midday , and would take round notices till she dropped . The teacher who could do nothing public , was invited to come to Maumsey in the evening , and address envelopes . Miss Marvell had lately imported a Secretary , who had set up her quarters in the old gun room on the ground floor , and had already filled it with correspondence , and stacked it with the literature of the Daughters . Miss Jackson eagerly promised her help .