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Factories usually pay more than stores, because the work's more looked down on though Lord knows it's hard to think how anything could be more looked down on than a saleslady." "I don't see why you bother about those things. What do they matter?" "Why, everybody bothers about them. But you don't understand.
Hummel also adverted to the negligence of the real complainants not appearing, and the absence of the saleslady who should have been sent here by them, so that the court might have had a full and ample investigation. With much feeling counsel urged a dismissal of the complaint, and an honorable discharge of the prisoner.
Who are you?" asked the girl, her stilted, saleslady manner changing to amazement with surprising suddenness. "I live at Big Wreck Cove. I guess you've heard of it," said Tunis. "Big Wreck Cove? Do tell!" Her eyes danced. "You're from down on the Cape, then. I guess you want some lace for your wife. What kind did she send you for?" Tunis brushed this aside bluntly.
She and Wylie welcomed each other like old friends. He was delighted when he learned that she had taken the room. "You won't mind Aunt Kate after a while," said he. "She's sour and nosey, but she's honest and respectable and that's the main thing just now with you. And I think you'll get a job all right. Aunt Kate's got a lady friend that's head saleslady at Shillito's. She'll know of something."
Had not the saleslady been obdurate, Lise would have had it on credit; but she did succeed, by an initial payment the ensuing Saturday, in having it withdrawn from public gaze.
He, curiously enough, had some fifteen minutes before gone in at the same doorway, questioned the same floor-walker, and he found himself in due time walking amongst a bewildering lot of models on the third floor, followed by a giggling saleswoman. "What kind of a dress do you want, sir?" asked the saleslady, for we are impelled to call her so. "S-silk cloth," said Jethro.
Every time some personal expenditure tempted him, he summed up the child's existence in four disgusted and angry words, "I can't afford it." But it was for Lily's sake, not Jacky's, that he economized! He was wretchedly aware that if it had not been for Jacky, Lily might still be a "saleslady" at Marston's, earning good wages.
Had not the saleslady been obdurate, Lise would have had it on credit; but she did succeed, by an initial payment the ensuing Saturday, in having it withdrawn from public gaze.
"I am looking," I said, "for a birthday present for my wife. I want to get something that will give her a great amount of pleasure and which I can use later on as a pipe cleaner or a pair of suspenders!" The saleslady fainted, so I moved over. At another counter another young lady said to me, "Have you been waited on?"
When one has been served by a "saleslady" does one leave the shop with a feebler sense of injury than was formerly inspired by a transaction at the counter a duller consciousness of being oneself the commodity that has changed hands? Have actresses elevated the stage to a moral altitude congenial to the colder virtues?