National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-06-14
No. 10 Blank Street.

! n with Il pleasant suit Of rooms, at No. 10
/ Blank Street. The house contains all the mod
/ cIn improvements. References required.
The advertisement seemed to me
to promise well. | was tired OF my
! present home. For five years had
occupied the same rooms and sat in
/ the same seat at table. The penny
| post was not better known on his
I beat than | on my way to dinner |
did not object to boarding houses. |
was willing to eat baked beans on a
! Sunday, but | wished to partdke OF
/ them III new locality. Blank
Street leads out of Bacon, therefore
il must be genteel. Probably a
suit of rooms there would be eX-
pensiye. but | could afford toindulge
myself little. | was thirty y.tiye,
alone in the world, very well Oft,
and doing business which pro
missed a speedy fortune. 1t was
time ! began to take life a little
more on the sunny side.
| went to No. 10 Blank Street on
my way down town. The landlady,
Mrs. Lee was widow handsome,
stylish. apparently not more than
thirty. | beard. atterward. that
she would never see forty again
but as my informant was boarder
to whom she had been under the
frequent necessity OF sending her
",mall bill" a second time, It was
doubtless a malicious Slauder. She
was a very attractive looking per
son. and was al home with her at
once. had no sooner told her my
name and my business than she
,eemed TO feel well acquainted with
me. .he'boWcd and smiled.
Il shan 5e most happy to accom-
modare you. Mr.. Prescott This
way, il you please"
tier black silk dress rustied DI.
fore me up two flights of stailS.
Her full. night curi> shook Nth a
coqlettl>h grace as she turned ner
head, The rooms We're delightful
spacious and handsomely fur
nished. The terms were little eX.
orbitant-at least should have
thought 50 had been dealing with
man Of business but surely one
would willingly pay a tmrie extra to
sit at the same table with Mrs. Lee.
Her family, she assured me, was OF
the most select description; some
three OF four single gentlemen OF
high standing, and as many gentle
men with their wives. 10 he sure,
She had been Obliged to MI her at
ties with cheap boardeI as she
could not afford to keep a. vacant
reon; but they were very quiet
aHd size trusted. no annoy aAce TO
ANY one.
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