still her wages should be a sufficient object to her to stimilate to soar above mere roast and biled.”
“We dined very well indeed,” said Rosa, “thank you.”
“Accustomed,” said Miss Twinkleton with a gracious air which to the jealous ears of the Billickin seemed to add “my good woman”—“Accustomed to a liberal and nutritious, yet plain and salutary diet, we have found no reason to bemoan our absence from the ancient city, and the methodical household, in which the quiet routine of our lot has been hitherto cast.”
“I did think it well to mention to my cook,” observed the Billickin with a gush of candour, “which I ’ope you will agree with, Miss Twinkleton, was a right precaution, that the young lady being used to what we should consider here but poor diet, had better be brought forward by degrees. For, a rush from scanty feeding to generous feeding, and from what you may call messing to what you may call method, do require a power of constitution, which is not often found in youth, particular when undermined by boarding-school!”