Two days after this we quitted Chester, I in the stage-coach, and he on horseback. I dismissed my maid at Chester. He was very much against my being without a maid, but she being a servant hired in the country, and I resolving to keep no servant at London, I told him it would have been barbarous to have taken the poor wench and have turned her away as soon as I came to town; and it would also have been a needless charge on the road, so I satisfied him, and he was easy enough on the score.
Deux jours après, nous quittâmes Chester, moi dans le coche et lui à cheval; je congédiai ma servante à Chester; il s'opposa très fort à ce que je restasse sans servante; mais comme je l'avais engagée dans la campagne, puisque je n'avais point de domestique à Londres, je lui dis que c'eût été barbare d'emmener la pauvre fille pour la mettre dehors sitôt que j'arriverais en ville, et que ce serait aussi une dépense inutile en route; si bien qu'il s'y accorda, et demeura satisfait sur ce chapitre.