The Disagreeable Woman

," simpered the young widow, and she looked around the tabl

Disagreeable Woman, looking up

rders noted with curiosity the effect[Pg

shed and directed an angry and s

ery much obliged

me," said the Disagr

han I do," said t

the Disagreeable Wom

telling us ho

I have reac

ages of our acquaintances? There was evidently a strong desire to learn the

g

discretion," she continue

y next neighbor, for I was a n

akfast and I will te

en boarders were gathered about the large table. I may have occasio

hundred dollars left over from the legacy of an old aunt, the rest of which had been used to defray the expenses of my education. I had not yet come to realize how small a sum this was for a profess

ut a very social and entertaining family of boarders. They were of all classes," he continued,

nrolled myself as one of Mrs. Gray's boarders

rgot-the Disagreeable Woman, who

arkable and even perhaps rude plainness of speech. Yet though she said sharp things she never seemed actuated by malice or ill-nature. She did not converse much, but was always ready to rebuke pretension and humbug as in the case of the yo

tures to Prof. Poppendorf, a learned German, with a deep bass voice and a German accent, w

eived from the Disagreeable Woman, though it made us

end's promised account of the lady who