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This morning she was very business-like in her short skirt, belted jacket, and green felt Alpine hat with a feather in the side. No one would mistake her for a cyclist or a golfer or a motorist or anything in the world but an Alpine climber; whatever Miss Hazel was or was not, she was always game.
I was greatly pleased, as I think every stranger must be, with its general aspect, particularly as seen from the water, in which respect it has a great advantage over Toronto. The number of vessels lying at the different wharfs, and the constant arrival of noble steamers both from the United States and the Upper and Lower Province, give it a very business-like appearance.
And he knew also that the slow lifting of his bridle-rein, preparatory to starting forward again, was the business-like gesture of a man who wasted no time even over his acts of impulsive liberality. In another moment he would dismiss the unaccepted offer from his mind without concern and without resentment. "Thank you it is a go," said Dick gratefully.
The familiar words of command brought him round in prompt obedience, and there before him he saw Madame Gilbert sitting up in her bed, pointing a most business-like automatic pistol straight for his heart. Her hand held it true, without a quiver, and along the sights glittered an eye remorseless as blue steel.
When Munro returned, bearing the strap a business-like looking affair, about two feet in length Mr. Garrison laid it on the desk, and seemed very reluctant to put it in use. At length, overcoming his disinclination, he rose to his feet, and, taking it up, said: "Cuthbert Lloyd, come forward!" Bert, his head drooping upon his breast, and his face flushed and pale by turns, moved slowly forward.
In order, therefore, to forestall any possible change of base, she began to unfold her scheme in a business-like tone: "Yesterday you seemed to be taken by the fishing business." "I certainly was until you told me there were no cannery sites left." "There is one. When I came here a year ago the whole river was open, so on an outside chance I located a site, the best one available.
San Sebastian is a somewhat famous watering-place, situated on the boisterous Bay of Biscay, and drawing its patronage largely from Madrid, though of late many English people have resorted thither. It is a small city, but the thriftiest and most business-like, when its size is considered, to be found in the borders of Spain.
"I said genially, 'I am so sorry to disturb you, Miss James, but I must really be going. I have er I stopped here, for the words she had uttered in reply, though singularly brief and in tone extremely business-like, were such as to render that arrest of my remarks, I think, natural and excusable. I have these words also noted down.
And the system of collective liability for payments to the State was abolished, together with that of collective land-ownership. This was in truth a genial reform, and the business-like way in which it was carried out did credit to the late Minister and the people. Even now it is far from completed, but already there are about six million peasant farms cut out and allotted.
It would be impossible for the most plodding inspector, who never dared commit a sonnet or an essay, to deal with his subject in a way showing better acquaintance with it, more interest in it, or more business-like abstinence from fads, and flights, and flings. But these are absolutely the only approaches to naughtiness in the whole volume.
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