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How is was Alem embarrased on his first day of school?

once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,

explanation:

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 !