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"Stop that, you minx!" said the salesman; "no whimpering here, the sale is going to begin." And accordingly the sale begun. Adolph was knocked off, at a good sum, to the young gentlemen who had previously stated his intention of buying him; and the other servants of the St. Clare lot went to various bidders. "Now, up with you, boy! d'ye hear?" said the auctioneer to Tom.
Everett Hilgarde was conscious that the man in the seat across the aisle was looking at him intently. He was a large, florid man, wore a conspicuous diamond solitaire upon his third finger, and Everett judged him to be a travelling salesman of some sort. He had the air of an adaptable fellow who had been about the world and who could keep cool and clean under almost any circumstances.
They have to send somebody; why shouldn't they pick on you some time?" J.W. rose to the lure, for the moment all salesman. "Nothing in it, Alma; no chance at all. But I would like to show the world the civilizing values of good tools, and I'd go if I got the chance."
Mortimer Darcy had been a diamond salesman for a large New York house in his younger days, and had come to be an expert in precious stones. Many good wishes, and not a little trade, had gone to him from his former employers, and some of their customers bought of him when he went into business for himself in the thriving city of Colchester.
He said he had a new recipe for making a splendid toilet soap, which could be put on the market for less money and with a larger profit than any other ever manufactured. With a little capital and an enterprising salesman on the road, a fortune could be made very soon.
"Swiss or Waltham?" "Waltham. I may as well patronize home manufactures." "Here is a watch I will sell you for fifteen dollars," said the salesman, drawing out a neat-looking watch, of medium size. "It will keep excellent time, and give you good satisfaction." "Very well; I will buy it on your recommendation. Have you any silver chains?"
Eight minutes later, at 5:32, a slightly pompous and thoroughly outraged young salesman marched through the doors of the station house and over to the desk sergeant. "Some clown just hit me ..." he began. "With his fist?" asked the sergeant. "With his car," said the salesman. "My car ... with his car ... he hit my car with his car." The sergeant raised his hand. "Simmer down, young feller.
"You can't see him!" growled Timmins. "Can't I?" "Not at this minute; he is engaged just now," added the salesman, who seemed to have a profound respect for Bobby's discrimination. "He will be at liberty in a few moments." "I will wait, then," said Bobby, seating himself on a stool by the counter.
I remember to have been dawdling in a book-store in a small town in Oregon when a lady entered to inquire if a monthly magazine, whose name was unknown to me, had yet arrived. When she was gone I asked the salesman who she was, and what was the periodical she wanted.
I wish I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and appraised it and taxed it and licensed it and staled it!" "Oh-ho!" said the Traveling Salesman with a little sharp indrawing of his breath. "Oh-ho! So that's what the Young Electrician makes you think of, is it?"
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