She carried coffee and tea back and forth among the boarders, but she made pleasure excursions rather than business ones in this way, to speak strictly.
She made jokes with various people.

She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts.
Manifestly she was a favorite with most of the young fellows and sweetheart of the rest of them.

Where she conferred notice she conferred happiness, as was seen by the face of the recipient; and; at the same time she conferred unhappiness--one could see it fall and dim the faces of the other young fellows like a shadow.

She never "Mistered" these friends of hers, but called them "Billy," "Tom," "John," and they called her "Puss" or "Hattie." Mr.Marsh sat at the head of the table, his wife sat at the foot.

Marsh was a man of sixty, and was an American; but if he had been born a month earlier he would have been a Spaniard.