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Now, I'll go and have a free life somewhere in Canada or some equally spacious clime where I can breathe." "Not at all!" said Betty decidedly. "You shall come and be my manager in London. The brewery wants one, badly. You shall have a handsome salary, Wallie much more than you had at that beastly bank!" "Very kind of you, I'm sure," laughed Neale.
"And it is not here that is equally certain," observed Gabriel. "What is also certain is that our manager trusted in more than he should have been! is missing, and many of our valuable securities with him. Therefore " He spread his hands again with an expressive gesture and once more bent over his papers. Once more there was silence.
You are the only man who has persistently balked me. You have driven me to use against you means which I had grown to look upon as absolutely extinct in the upper circles of our profession." De Grost peered through the glass walls of the office. "Eight men, not counting yourself," he remarked, "and my poor manager and his faithful clerk lying bound and helpless. It is heavy odds, Bernadine."
In full uniform, no manager certainly no editor of another morning paper is aware of the existence of the Daily News; the Daily News, on its part, being courageously steeped in equally dense ignorance of the existence of other journals.
'That is what makes it impossible, assented Pinchas. 'And there is no other part worthy of Mrs. Goldwater. 'It may be she would sacrifice herself, said the manager musingly. 'And who am I that I should ask her to sacrifice herself? replied the poet modestly. 'Fanny won't sacrifice Ophelia, Kloot observed drily to his chief. 'You hear? said Goldwater, as quick as lightning.
So many players failing of late, in the this character, leaves it a matter of doubt, whether the actor is more mistaken in his performance; or the manager in the distribution of parts. The next tragedy Mr. Rowe wrote was his Ulysses, acted at the queen's Theatre, in the Hay Market, and dedicated to the earl of Godolphin.
"Oh, this is the boy?" said the manager, staring at Nick. "Why, Alleyn told me he was a country gawk!" "He lied, then," said Carew, very shortly. "'Twas cheaper than the truth at my price. There, Nick, go look about the place we have business." Nick went slowly along the gallery. His hands were beginning to tremble as he put them out touching the stools.
Never shall I forget the astonishment of stage manager, scene-painter, and staff! It was never safe to indulge in too much self-satisfaction beforehand with Henry. He was always liable to drop such bombs! He believed very much in "front" scenes, seeing how necessary they were to the swift progress of Shakespeare's diverging plots.
The Doctor was too gloomy and impatient over little things to be popular. Jack Drew talked too straight in the paper, and in spite of his proprietors about pub spieling and such things and was too sarcastic in his progress committee, town council, and toady reception reports. He was clever, and drink had brought him down to Redclay. "The bank manager was a heavy snob named Browne.
But he lived frugally, discounted his bills, and had such a broad acquaintance among seafaring men that each year's end showed a neat profit on his books. His store force was modest, being only three in number. Allen Drew was a sort of general manager, and Tyke was growing more and more into the habit of leaving the conduct of the business to him. Winters was the junior clerk.
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