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Marya Vassilyevna was still thinking about the school, wondering whether the arithmetic questions at the examination would be difficult or easy. And she felt annoyed with the Zemstvo board at which she had found no one the day before. How unbusiness-like!
He is entitled to use the space for which he pays by the insertion of such material as is approved by the editor. He gains no interest in any other part of the paper, and has no more claim to any space in the editorial columns, than any other one of the public. To give him such space would be unbusiness-like, and the extension of a preference which would be unjust to the rest of the public.
"All right, uncle." "And don't speak in that free-and-easy, offhand, unbusiness-like manner. Say `Yes, sir, and `No, sir, if you are not too stupid to remember."
The faculty which the busiest of young men have for finding time in which to present themselves, well clothed and unbusiness-like, to at least one young woman, is as remarkable and admirable as it is inexplicable.
Often as the elder partner looked upon the sensible, kindly, handsome-featured face, he reminded himself how very dear to his father in his old age had been this unbusiness-like, pleasure-loving, steeplechase-riding younger son, who had been but a boy at school when the old man had died.
Then, there is the interest for two years." "Why don't you offer to buy the place, even paying more than the mortgage calls for? It would be a kindness." "I made such an offer through my lawyer, but Josiah refused." "Then, why not cancel it altogether?" "That would be very unbusiness-like," he declared curtly. "But even if I so desired, it would be impossible now.
He was glad that Breed was too much absorbed in his own troubles to observe any possible change in himself or to ask questions about the letter. "I tell you, it may mean the short birch for me, Steele," said the factor gloomily. "Lac Bain is just now the emptiest, most fallen-to-pieces, unbusiness-like post between the Athabasca and the Bay.
And now at last the stimulus had come and the opportunity with it. Could she ever forget the anxiety of the first lecture the difficulty she had had in making him finish it his careless, unbusiness-like management of the whole affair? But then had come the burst of praise and popularity; and Arthur was a new man. No difficulty or scarcely in getting him to work since then!
"No; I am going home by myself. I have a headache. You were not to blame." "Yes, he was to blame," said Mr Oswald. "It was a very unbusiness-like way of doing things, and it might have ended badly for all concerned." "It has been bad enough all through for David Inglis.
Susan hesitated long and asked many questions before she finally with reluctance paid the five dollars. She felt ashamed of her distrust, but might perhaps have persisted in it had not Mr. Ransome said: "I don't blame you for hesitating, my dear young lady. And if I could I'd put you on my list without payment. But you can see how unbusiness-like that would be.
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