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You have often advised me to marry, and you know if I did it couldn't be anything else but a business affair. Then it ought to be done in a businesslike way. You say I can't get along alone, and like enough you're right.
The door was opened and he entered, just as Arabella came downstairs in radiant walking attire. "Take a chair, Mr. What's-your-name?" said her father, an energetic, black-whiskered man, in the same businesslike tones Jude had heard from outside. "I'd rather go out at once, wouldn't you?" she whispered to Jude. "Yes," said he.
His hands were square and red, seldom clean, but always alive, impatient, even sympathetic. "MORGEN," he greeted his pupil in a businesslike way, put on a black alpaca coat, and conducted her at once to the piano in Mrs. Kohler's sitting-room. He twirled the stool to the proper height, pointed to it, and sat down in a wooden chair beside Thea.
"I just can't, Uncle Mac." "But you need it." "I know," the girl confessed, and as she said it broke down again into soft weeping. Mac let her have her cry out, petting her awkwardly. Presently she dried her eyes, set at her supper in a businesslike way, heard the story to an end quietly, and volunteered one heartbroken comment. "As if father could do such a thing." The cattleman agreed eagerly.
It was a businesslike wagon. Its contents included only one deviation from the practical and necessary three books of David's. Joe had laughed at him about them. What did a man want with Byron's poems and Milton and Bacon's "Essays" crossing the plains? Neither Joe nor Leff could understand such devotion to the printed page.
He added, "Does this seem a businesslike proposal?" The Government took no steps towards carrying out the Recommendations of either Report. Perhaps they thought them so nearly divided, and so almost evenly balanced, that the one neutralised the other.
Seth came to life. His first speech was sharp and businesslike. "Emeline," he said, "there's a lantern hanging up in the cabin. Go light it and fetch it to me. Hurry!" "It's upset," was the frightened answer. "Bennie found it when we first came aboard. When we when this awful boat started, it upset and went out." "Never mind. Probably there's ile enough left for a spell. Go fetch it.
Of the businesslike figure in the sailor hat and trim shirtwaist of the Gabriella who had said, "I can manage my life" there remained only an outline. The very feet of the capable woman had changed into the shrinking and timid feet of a lovesick girl. She was afraid to go forward, afraid to move, afraid to breathe lest she break the wonderful spell of the magic.
"You must spray your throat immediately," my mother-in-law said in a businesslike way, "and I suppose we ought to send for that jackanapes of a doctor." Even through my suffering I could not help but smile at my mother-in-law's reference to Dr. Pettit, who had attended her in her illness.
He preferred to scrawl his initials to any typewritten letter which I prepared. "The explanation is briefly this, Father," said Hardt in his businesslike way. "Mademoiselle has been the dupe of His Excellency, who, while Governor, often went to Stavropol, where he stayed at an hotel under another name.
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