Dogs
But if we were dogs, she’d treat us better than she does. Aren’t the kennels at the big house bigger than our hut?
Side
No Calum, we’re not on any side.
Dignity
Neil’s dignity and composure, proper to a sea captain, crumbled into the abjectness of a peasant.
Lifetime
A lifetime of frightened submissiveness held it down.
Stooped
How stooped and contorted Neil was then by rheumatism and dismay: it was as if, by some terrible penance, he was striving to become in shape like his brother.
Surrender
A man can only surrender so far.
Servants
We are not her servants,