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He wondered, as he studied each detail, how Miss Teetum could expect her boarders to be contented in such quarters. He saw at a glance how much more cosey and restful the room might be made with the addition of a few touches here and there; a colored print or two a plaster cast a bit of cheap stuff or some gay-colored cushions.
In the midst of this uproar of brass, strings, sheep- skin, wash-bowls, broken coal, pokers and tongs, a lean figure in curl-papers and slippers, bright red calico wrapper reaching to the floor, and a lighted candle in one hand, forced its way through the crowd at the door and stood out in the glare of the gaslights facing McFudd. It was Miss Ann Teetum! Instantly a silence fell upon the room.
This dire threat being duly reported to the two Misses Teetum had it was afterward learned so affected them both that Miss Ann had gone to bed with a chill and Miss Sarah had warded off another with a bowl of hot camomile tea. This story, true as it undoubtedly was, did not entirely clear up the situation. One part of it sorely puzzled McFudd. Why did Miss Euphemia need Mrs.
Then came not only Miss Euphemia Teetum in a costume especially selected for Oliver's capture, but a person still more startling and imposing so imposing, in fact, that when she entered the room one-half of the gentlemen present made little backward movements with the legs of their chairs, as if intending to rise to their feet in honor of her presence.
This engaging young woman really lived with her mother, in the next street, but flitted in and out, dining, or breakfasting, or spending a week at a time with her aunts, the Misses Teetum, whenever an opportunity offered the opportunity being a vacant and non- paying room, one of which she was at the time enjoying.
Van Tassell began to look upon her encomiums as part of an advertising scheme to fill Miss Teetum's rooms. The impression made upon the Teetum contingent by the appearance and manners of the several members even Oliver's reputation was ruined was equally disastrous. It was, perhaps, best voiced by the druggist groom, when he informed Mrs.
This fair damsel, who was known to the boarders on the top floor as "our Phemy," and to the world at large as Miss Euphemia Teetum the real jewel in her name was Phoebe, but she had reset it had been especially beloved, so Fred informed Oliver, by every member of the club except Waller, who, having lived in boarding-houses all his life, understood her thoroughly.
The two Misses Teetum sat one at either end Miss Ann, thin, severe, precise; Miss Sarah, stout, coy, and a trifle kittenish, as doubtless became a young woman of forty-seven, and her sister's junior by eight years.
She further notified Miss Teetum that she should at once withdraw her protecting presence from the establishment, and leave it without a distinguished social head, if the dwellers on the top floor remained another day under the same roof with herself. An ominous silence and depressing gloom seemed. to hang over everybody.
"I will not have my house turned into a bear- garden, that's why!" "That's better than a graveyard," retorted Mr. Lang. "That's what the house would be without them. I can't understand why you object. You sleep in the basement and shouldn't hear a sound; my wife and I sleep under them every night. If we can stand it, you can. You send the boys away, Miss Teetum, and we'll move out."
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