Bettersome

"[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."

We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]

Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.

Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.