The things we do!

Charles Honeyman spent his
money elegantly in wine-parties at Oxford, and afterwards in foreign
travel;--spent his money and as much of Miss Honeyman's as that worthy
soul would give him. She was a woman of spirit and resolution. She
brought her furniture to Brighton (believing that the whole place still
fondly remembered her grandfather, Captain Nokes, who had resided there
and his gallantry in Lord Rodney's action with the Count de Grasse), took
a house, and let the upper floors to lodgers.
The little brisk old lady brought a maid-servant out of the country with
her, who was daughter to her father's clerk, and had learned her letters
and worked her first sampler under Miss Honeyman's own eye, whom she
adored all through her life. No Indian begum rolling in wealth, no
countess mistress of castles and townhouses, ever had such a faithful
toady as Hannah Hicks was to her mistress. Under Hannah was a young lady
from the workhouse, who called Hannah "Mrs. Hicks, mum," and who bowed in
awe as much before that domestic as Hannah did before Miss Honeyman.


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