"Why!" said Margaret, "what tyranny this is! Nay, Higgins, I don't care one straw for your anger. I know you can't be angry with me if you would, and I must tell you the truth: that I never read, in all the history I have read, of a more slow, lingering torture than this. And you belong to the Union! And you talk of the tyranny of the masters!"

'Why!' said Margaret, 'what tyranny! Nay, Higgins, I don't care one straw for your anger. I never read of a more slow, lingering torture than this. And you talk of the tyranny of the masters!'
