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"Really? you are setting up to rival the Inn, eh?" said Tom. "No", Tommy, nothing of the sort. But I am offered good pay for my front room, and as Jane Frost is always nagging me about living here alone, I thought I'd take her." "And who pray is your new boarder?" asked Nancy. "That is the funny part of it," replied Mrs. Meath, "I know nothing but her name Mrs. Fountain.
Then there was the other kind, with a straw-colored Mustache and a prominent Adam's Apple, who was very careful about his Pronunciation. He belonged to a Social Purity Club that had a Yell. His Idea of a Hurrah was to get in a Parlor with a few Sisters who were under the Age Limit and sing the Bass Part of "Pull for the Shore." Then there was the Old Boarder. He was the Land-Mark.
This was an act of great unreason; for the debtor who stays away is but the more remarked, and the boarder who misses a meal is sure to be accused of infidelity. On the fourth day, therefore, I returned, inwardly quaking. It was obvious I was near the end of my tether; one plank divided me from want, and now I felt it tremble.
A week or ten days later, Bancroft came downstairs one morning early and found the ground covered with hoar-frost, though the sun had already warmed the air. Elder Conklin, in his shirt-sleeves, was cleaning his boots by the wood pile. When he had finished with the brush, but not a moment sooner, he put it down near his boarder.
Could it be when there were plenty of schools in the thickly settled districts waiting for them? I knew of one who had come to this very school in a car and turned right back when she saw that she was expected to live as a boarder on a comfortless homestead and walk quite a distance and teach mostly foreign-born children. It had been the money with her!
I proceeded with my history, but when I came to the episode of the poor girl who was 'tied', describing all the trouble I had vainly taken with her, the little boarder got so curious that she placed herself in the most seducing attitude so that I might be able to shew her what I did. Seeing this M M made her escape. "Kneel down on the ledge, and leave the rest to me," said the little wanton.
It would be a very stupid person who could not take such a hint as that, and so, after a walk around the garden, Euphemia took occasion to go below to look at the kitchen fire. As soon as she had gone, the boarder turned to me and said: "I'll tell you what it is. She's working herself sick." "Sick?" said I. "Nonsense!" "No nonsense about it," he replied.
Looking in the face of her future task-mistress was scarcely calculated to awaken a very deep feeling of gratitude. "Now," said Mrs. Chase, addressing her new boarder, "just take off your things, Betsy, and make yourself useful." "My name isn't Betsy, ma'am." "It isn't, isn't it?" "No; it is Grace." "You don't say so!
Soon after this he removed to Brook Street, Holborn, and became a boarder in the house of one Angell, a sack-maker. Here he continued to work day and night until desperation, long threatened, seized upon him. Court journals grew tired of articles showing little talent for political discussion, and he became ragged and almost shoeless.
"Which is the weakly one?" asked Cadbury. "That lily-flower bending on its stalk to address the cheeky, black-eyed imp? He looks weakly enough, all eyes and hair." "No, no; that's Hughes, from the Bank. I mean the new weekly boarder, who's to go home from Saturday to Monday." "I know the one," said Hallett. "The apple-faced boy who does so much laughing. I heard someone call him Brady."
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