She faced about again. "I'll tell you what the matter is," she said.
"If you do that again you will have to move. If you think I am one
of those landladies--you know the kind I mean--you are
mistaken."
She uttered it in calm, rather amicable accents. So I replied: "Why,
why, of course I don't! Indeed you are the most respectable and the
most sweet-looking woman in the world!"
I stepped up close to ner and reached out my hand to seize hold of
her bare arm
"None of that, mister!" she flared up, drawing back. "Keep your
hands where they belong. If you try that again I'll break every bone
in your body. May both my hands be paralyzed if I don't!"
"'S-sh," I implored. Which only added fuel to her rage
"'S-sh nothing! I'll call in all the neighbors of the house and tell
them the kind of pious man you are. Saying his prayers three
times a day, indeed!"
I sneaked out of the house like a thief. I was wretched all day,
wondering how I should come to supper in the evening. I
wondered whether she was going to deliver me over to the jealous
wrath of her husband.
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