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Judy got out of the taxi with such an assumption of great style that the chauffeur, much impressed, demanded a larger pourboire than she saw fit to give him. "They always try to make you pay more, no matter what you offer. I am adamant, however, where cabbies and chauffeurs are concerned.
"I don't mind," said Fitz, "if they go where I tell 'em to, and don't set up a row over the pourboire." "Still," said she, "it must be nice to have carriages and things. We used to have. Only I can hardly remember. Mamma says I have a dreadfully short memory." "How long have you been abroad?" Fitz asked. "Dear me," she said, "ever so long. I don't remember."
It was quite evident that Euphemia had been looking forward for some time to the novel experience of taking her coffee in bed. But the gray-haired old gentleman who acted as our chambermaid never hinted that he supposed we wanted anything of the kind. Nothing, however, excited Euphemia's indignation so much as the practice of giving a pourboire to cabmen and others.
Often have I seen him gnawing his finger-nails with rage when, at the end of a copious dinner in one of the fashionable restaurants where I myself was engaged in a business capacity to keep an eye on possibly light-fingered customers it would be Mme. la Marquise who paid the bill, even gave the pourboire to the waiter.
The rate is two francs an hour, or four francs in all. We offer you five francs, and this includes a franc pourboire. If this settlement does not suit you we will get into your cab and you will drive us to the nearest police-station where the argument can be continued." The man's jaw dropped. He was obviously outclassed. These foreigners knew the law as well as he did.
If they ask you, you are to tell them forty francs; and listen, Beppe, every franc over that you tell them, I shall deduct from your pourboire when I leave, do you understand?" "Si, Signore." A morning or two after the arrangement about the gondola Peter was leaning over the bridge of San Moise watching the sun on the copper vessels the women brought to the fountain, when his man came to him.
He saw at once that there would be no imposing on the young Americano. The two harangued for a while, on general principles. Twice words rose so high that Merrihew thought they were about to come to blows. Tomass' shook his fingers under Hillard's nose and Hillard returned the compliment. Finally Tomass' compromised on one-lira-fifty per hour, with fifty centesimi pourboire. Crack-crack!
Then to Jefferson she added: "Give him a franc for a pourboire that makes five francs altogether." Jefferson, obedient to her superior wisdom, held out a five-franc piece, but the driver shrugged his shoulders disdainfully. He saw that the moment had come to bluster so he descended from his box fully prepared to carry out his bluff.
I fell into a deep sleep, for I was tired out; I had slept little enough during that night-long journey in the stolen car. When I awoke, the train was steaming into Paris; an official, who had aroused me by rubbing his hand upon my cheek, stood awaiting a pourboire. "Go to the Hotel Continental," I said in French to the driver of the taxi into which I had just stepped with my newly-bought valise.
"Ha! then I'm to carry Monsieur le Comte de Serizy!" cried the coach-proprietor. "Yes, my land, neither more nor less. But listen! here's a special order. If you have any of the country neighbors in your coach you are not to call him Monsieur le comte; he wants to travel 'en cognito, and told me to be sure to say he would pay a handsome pourboire if he was not recognized." "So!
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