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Updated: June 23, 2025
In order that the little girl should not become too proud and conceited, Mrs. Gruffanuff took her old ragged mantle and one shoe, and put them into a glass box, with a card laid upon them, upon which was written, "These were the old clothes in which little BETSINDA was found when the great goodness and admirable kindness of Her Royal Highness the Princess Angelica received this little outcast."
But we must now revert to Giglio and Betsinda. Gruffanuff, who had seen what had happened with the King, and knew that Giglio must come to grief, got up very early the next morning, and went to devise some plans for rescuing her darling husband, as the silly old thing insisted on calling him. 'Well, dear Giglio, says Gruff. 'Well, dear Gruffy, says Giglio, only HE was quite satirical.
He had new clothes given him, was called 'My good cousin' by His Majesty, and was treated with the greatest distinction by everybody. But it was easy to see he was very melancholy. The fact is, the sight of Betsinda, who looked perfectly lovely in an elegant new dress, set poor Bulbo frantic in love with her again.
"Didst thou not tend me in my sickness, when all forsook me?" continues Giglio. "Did not thy gentle hand smooth my pillow, and bring me jelly and roast chicken?" "Yes, dear Prince, I did," says Betsinda, "and I sewed Your Royal Highness's shirt-buttons on too, if you please, Your Royal Highness," cries this artless maiden.
And when the dancing-master came, Betsinda learned along with Angelica; and when the music-master came, she watched him, and practiced the Princess's pieces when Angelica was away at balls and parties; and when the drawing-master came, she took note of all he said and did; and the same with French, Italian, and all other languages she learned them from the teacher who came to Angelica.
What woman in all Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, nay, in Australia, only it is not yet discovered, can presume to be thy equal? Angelica? Pish! Gruffanuff? Phoo! The Queen? Ha, ha! Thou art my Queen. Thou art the real Angelica, because thou art really angelic." "Oh, Prince! I am but a poor chambermaid," says Betsinda, looking, however, very much pleased.
When the Princess was going out of an evening she would say, 'My good Betsinda, you may as well finish what I have begun. 'Yes, miss, Betsinda would say, and sit down very cheerful, not to FINISH what Angelica began, but to DO it. For instance, the Princess would begin a head of a warrior, let us say, and when it was begun it was something like this
"I'll cut your throat." "I'll blow your brains out." "I'll knock your head off." "I'll send a friend to you in the morning." "I'll send a bullet into you in the afternoon." "We'll meet again," says Giglio, shaking his fist in Bulbo's face; and seizing up the warming-pan, he kissed it, because, forsooth, Betsinda had carried it, and rushed downstairs.
In fact, she was snoring sound asleep. Her room, you know, is next to the King and Queen, and the Princess is next to them. So pretty Betsinda went away for the coals to the kitchen, and filled the royal warming-pan.
I will go and see dear Giglio this afternoon; and now I will drive to the jeweller's, to look for the necklace and bracelets. The Princess went up into her own room, and made Betsinda, her maid, bring out all her dresses; and as for Giglio, they forgot him as much as I forget what I had for dinner last Tuesday twelve-month.
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