The Landlady - part one

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• a bit of all right (old fashioned) enjoyable
• baby-grand piano smallest of long, three legged pianos
• big shot important person
• blotchy having uneven marks, irregular spots
• brisk quick; efficient
• choosy not easily pleased
• dainty delicate
• dither unable to decide (what to do)
• dotty crazy
• frisky lively
• fuss paying a lot of attention to
• glow giving off a warm light
• hearth place in a room where a fire is put
• jack-in-the-box children's toy where head on a spring jumps out of a box
• kipper a smoked fish (herring)
• landing place where stairs meet in a house
• on the off-chance by luck
• pane single piece of glass in a window
• peeling layer coming away from the wall
• plump soft; chubby; round
• pop jump out suddenly
• pop in enter quickly, without ceremony
• swamp overwhelm; too much of something
• swanky expensive and snobbish
• teeny weeny extremely little
• tiny very little
• tray flat receptacle for carrying cups, plates etc
• trot walk quickly (implies unconcerned way of walking)
• undergraduate university student studying for first degree

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