Now Guster, our young woman, is timid and has fits, and she, taking fright at the foreigner's looks--which are fierce--and at a grinding manner that she has of speaking--which is calculated to alarm a weak mind--gave way to it, instead of bearing up against it, and tumbled down the kitchen stairs out of one into another, such fits as I do sometimes think are never gone into, or come out of, in any house but ours. 
Now Guster, our young woman, is timid and has fits, and she, taking fright at the foreigner's looks - which are fierce - tumbled down the kitchen stairs. 