I had found her a cross and well-educated woman, far above her neighbors, and determined to remain so.

Gossip, that universal leveler, theoretically she despised; and she had that magnificent esteem for rank which works so beautifully in England.

And now when my good nurse reasonably said that, much as she loved to be with me, her business would allow that delight no longer, and it also came home to my own mind that money would be running short again, and small hope left in this dreadful civil war of our nugget escaping pillage (which made me shudder horribly at internal discord), I just did this--I dismissed Betsy, or rather I let her dismiss herself, which she might not have altogether meant to do, although she threatened it so often.

For here she had nothing to do but live well, and protest against tricks of her own profession which she practiced as necessary laws at home; and so, with much affection, for the time we parted.
Mrs.Busk was delighted at her departure, for she never had liked to be criticised so keenly while she was doing her very best.

And as soon as the wheels of Betsy's fly had shown their last spoke at the corner, she told me, with a smile, that her mind had been made up to give us notice that very evening to seek for better lodgings.