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A bootmaker's arrested him; he stood before the window for a long time, turning over and over in his pocket a sovereign no small fraction of the ready coin which had to support him until dividend day. Then he crossed the threshold. Never did man use less discretion in the purchase of a pair of boots.
"DEAR GEORGE, I am so glad. Miss Wheeler is going to her bootmaker's in Conduit Street to-morrow afternoon. She's always such a long time there. Come and have tea with me at the new Prosser's in Regent Street, four sharp. I shall have half an hour. In his heart he pretended to jeer at this letter. He said it was 'like' Lois.
"The fair lady who looks at you from your mirror," replied Steinmetz, with a face of stone. The countess laughed and shook her cap to one side. "Well," she said, "I can do no harm in talking of such things, as I know nothing of them. My poor husband my poor mistaken Stépan placed no confidence in his wife. And now he is in Siberia. I believe he works in a bootmaker's shop.
Temple and the pallid confectioner spent the day on board a yacht with my father. Mrs. Dolly stayed to nurse me and persuade me to swallow medicine. She talked of her youth, when, as a fashionable bootmaker's daughter, she permitted no bills to be sent in to Mr. Richmond, alleging, as a sufficient reason for it to her father, that their family came from Richmond in Yorkshire.
He did not care to remember that dinner was due in two hours. He turned aimlessly into Wentworth Street, and studied a placard that hung in a bootmaker's window. This was the announcement it made in jargon: Riveters, Clickers, Lasters, Finishers, Wanted. BARUCH EMANUEL, Cobbler. Makes and Repairs Boots. Every Bit as Cheaply as MORDECAI SCHWARTZ, of 12 Goulston Street.
She has the same interest in seeing Ireland prosperous that a bootmaker has in learning from his farmer client that the crops are good. Each country is in great measure the economic complement of the other. But if the bootmaker were to insist on having his finger in the farmer's pie, the pie, destined for the bootmaker's own appetite, would not be improved.
For me, it was the inane life of that draff of Society the young man-about-town: the tailor's, the haberdasher's, the bootmaker's, and trinket-maker's, young man; the dancing and 'hell'-frequenting young man; the young man of the 'Cider Cellars' and Piccadilly saloons; the valiant dove-slayer, the park-lounger, the young lady's young man who puts his hat into mourning, and turns up his trousers because because the other young man does ditto, ditto.
'But a fellow who probably has to make his way in the world! and he despises ambition! . . . Chillon dropped him. He was antipathetic to eccentrics, and his soldierly and social training opposed the profession of heterodox ideas: to have listened seriously to them coming from the mouth of an unambitious bootmaker's son involved him in the absurdity.
And then John was led to the bootmaker's, and there measured for his first pair of patent-leathers. The Caterpillar was so exhausted by these labours that a protracted visit to the Creameries became imperative. "You've always looked like a gentleman," said the Caterpillar, after his "dringer," "and it's a comfort to me to think that now you'll be dressed like one."
"He is a liar, gentlemen, and a scoundrel! The bootmaker had detected him in swindling, and so his niece refused him. Miss Waters was engaged to him from childhood, and he deserted her for the bootmaker's niece, who was richer."
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