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Her promotion assumed the guise of a challenge, of a gauntlet flung down at the feet of her sex. In a certain way, an insult, though incredibly stimulating. If he flattered himself that he had done her a favour, if he entertained the notion that he could presently take advantage of the contact with her now achieved to make unbusinesslike advances well, he would find out.
They are so unbusinesslike, we could make them do anything by judicious management. Look here yes. We'll do that. And we ourselves could live at Howards End or Shropshire." He blew out his cheeks. "Heavens! how you women do fly round! My head's in a whirl. Point by point, Margaret. Howards End's impossible. I let it to Hamar Bryce on a three years' agreement last March. Don't you remember? Oniton.
I can appreciate the desirability in the past of giving the people the advantage in a few transactions in order to create public confidence; but to continue to make a practice of so doing appears to me to be unnecessary and, I may say, unbusinesslike." After Litchfield sat down Gorham called upon several others, some of whom expressed themselves, with more or less frankness, along the same line.
"Pays us for looking after her," he confided to his wife, "and looks after her himself!" Mrs. Bullen laughed and then sighed, being a soft-hearted woman, and inclined to grieve over their impending desertion of their unbusinesslike master. "Mr. Philip couldn't do more for her if he was her own father," she acknowledged appreciatively.
I had notes in my pocket-book, and I marshalled my facts, and gave, I flatter myself, a very businesslike statement of my own unbusinesslike ways and lamentable position. I was depressed, however, to notice that my companion's eyes were vacant and his attention elsewhere.
In that sense it's beastly when we sleep out instead of in bed, or do lots of other quite nice things. The way men and women do things isn't necessarily the best way," and there Rodney had to agree with her. He fell back on "It's unbusinesslike. Suppose you have children?" and Gerda, who had supposed all that with Barry, sighed.
I replaced the receiver slowly in its cradle and looked at it a long minute before going back downstairs. I had come home on a quixotic and more or less unbusinesslike mission.
"These clothes" there was a narrow slip of mirror between the front windows of the taxi which reflected him, a section at a time "these clothes 'ud pass," he considered gloomily, considering their worn and unbusinesslike quality. "But with this" his fingers explored his chin "folks'll think we only do business between sprees."
Here he drew a long slip from the package, held it between his thumb and forefinger, and was about to continue, when St. George burst out with: "Look here, Gadgem if you have any business with Mr. Rutter you will please state it at once. We have hardly finished breakfast." "I beg, sir, that you will not lose your temper. It is unBUSinesslike to lose one's temper.
Then by the time he might have thought her launched upon a different meditation, her mind swept back to his protest, like a whimsical bird. "I didn't want to extract anything from the mercantile community of Calcutta in advance," she said. "It would be most unbusinesslike.
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