Our landlady to Benjamin Franklin, briskly,Go to school right off, there's a good boy!

I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it.

He had withdrawn from society and shut himself up, till he was ready to shun, not merely his landlady, but every human face.

"Nor mine either," said the landlady, sharply.

I could hear the landlady upstairs bitterly reproaching a lodger who could not pay.