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He was the oldest man in the house and the oldest boarder; this gave him certain privileges, one being to speak his mind. "I understand," he said, unfolding his napkin and facing. Miss Ann, "that you have ordered the boys out of the house?" "Yes, I have," snapped out Miss Teetum. Everybody looked up. No one recognized the tone of her voice, it was so sharp and bitter. "Why, may I ask?"
Miss Ann winced under the shot, but she did not answer. "Do you mean that you're going to turn the young gentlemen into the street, Miss Ann?" whined Mrs. Southwark Boggs in an injured tone, from her end of the table. "Are we going to have no young life in the house at all? I won't stay a day after they're gone." Miss Teetum changed color, but she looked straight ahead of her.
With his old-time buoyancy he put his arm through Fred's, while the two tramped gayly down the four flights of stairs to be ushered into the long, narrow, stuffy dining-room on the basement floor, there to be presented to the two Misses Teetum, who as the young men entered bent low over their plates in unison.
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