Denner

Mrs. Transome's devoted maid; wife of Mr. Hicks the butler, but always called by her maiden name. "Denner's feeling towards her mistress… was of that worshipful sort paid to a goddess in ages when it was not thought necessary or likely that a goddess should be very moral... There was a tacit understanding that Denner knew all her mistress's secrets, and her speech was plain and unflattering; yet with wonderful subtlety of instinct she never said anything with Mrs. Transome could feel humiliated by... She was a hard-headed godless little woman, but with a character to be reckoned on as you reckon on the qualities of iron."

<em>Felix Holt, the Radical</em>

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