Leave my house this very hour! You are dismissed my service.

Go pack up your things and be off!" cried Frau von Werrig.
"Oh, do not go, Trude, for mercy's sake, for then I have no one to help me," cried the general.
"I cannot do otherwise, she has given me my dismissal." Trude approached Frau von Werrig respectfully, saying, "So I must pack up and go away at once ?" "Immediately, you deceitful creature!" "Immediately! but Frau von Werrig will be so good as to give me my wages." "Yes," she answered in a slower and more subdued voice.

"That shall be done presently." "It will not be so very difficult to reckon them, I have been here twenty years; just as many years as Marie is old, for I came as child's nurse, and have helped her learn to talk and walk, and played mother to the dear child a bit.

Then I obtained my wages, for they were good times; but the pension-time came, and we had no cook or servant but me.
'The rats run away if the ship springs a leak,' but the old mole Trude stayed.

Mankind is in the world to work, I said, and why should not I be the cook and waiting-maid too, that my little Marie should not want any thing?
So I became maid-of-all-work and have stayed here ever since.
Then, you told me you would double my wages, and give me twenty thalers a year, and four thalers at Christmas.