Among other judicious habits and Scottish maxims, which my early and excellent friend Mrs. Busby took great pains to teach me, were, to observe the utmost orderliness in my apparel, and to keep my wardrobe at the lowest possible minimum. By these means she assured me I would be ever neat in my appearance, and always in fashion at the least cost; nor was her opinion so much the result of theory as of practice, for she had been throughout life accustomed to a genteel economy, and had in the course of long administering a narrow jointure, acquired all the respectable methods of frugality without meanness; a study of no easy application, and which is generally huddled over in an alternate feast and famine way, by those who have the misfortune to be pressed by straitened circumstances. It thus came to pass that the preparations for removing myself to London were soon and easily accomplished, for I had learned to appreciate the benefits of her prudent instruction, and was at all times ready, on a short notice, to undertake the longest journeys; not that travelling had been much in my business, but her lessons remain with me still; and I am in mentioning my departure for the metropolis, speaking rather of what I have always been, than of my conduct on that occasion.