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Her Standing with Her New Master and Mistress
Dumont praises and shields Isabella while his wife and the white servant Kate conspire against her—a plot exposed when ten-year-old Gertrude catches Kate throwing ashes into the potatoes—and the Catlins beat her suitor Robert nearly to death for visiting her.
Between master and mistressThe potatoes-and-ashes plot and its exposureThe beating of Robert by the CatlinsIsabella's overwork to earn her master's praise