6 Words to use with landladies

If only you could have heard the hotel landlady exclaim as she drove past: "Well!

But he owed his landlady money, and his departure would have to be clandestine.

For the landlady sails forth to the adjacent town in all the glory of those fine feathers that proverbially make the fine bird.

Then in the pause he heard his landlady scuttle upstairs, lock her door, and drag something heavy across the room and put against it.

At this his landlady shrieks, dissolves into tears, and wrings her hands, as if it had been an only son, till seeing the mischief past mending, she wipes her eyes and quietly takes what the traveller offers her.

What was his horror to see her landlady weeping and wringing her hands over the bed, and find the lady lying motionless, with bloodless lips and distended nostrilsto all appearance dead!

6 Words to use with  landladies