Explain the ways in which alcinous and the phaeacians follow the customs of xenia and are gracious hosts to odysseus when he arrives on their island.

caliban is prospero's slave in the shakespear's play "the tempest"

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !

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