These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay pay him off , and effect a separation separation by mutual consent .

How they affected my aunt , nobody knew ; for immediately upon the separation separation , she took take her maiden name again , bought buy a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off , established establish herself there as a single woman with one servant , and was understood to live secluded , ever afterwards , in an inflexible retirement .