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I should have thought men would wish to pay their debts, even after they had been bankrupt; but they tell us we can't expect anything more from these people. 'You are thinking of Walter Scott, and that kind of thing' Jasper laughed. 'Oh, that's quite unbusinesslike; it would be setting a pernicious example nowadays. Well, and what's to be done? Marian had no answer for such a question.
"How often am I to tell you, sir," said Mr Denham, "that `yes, uncle, is much too familiar and unbusinesslike a phrase to be used in this office in the hearing of your fellow-clerks?" "I beg pardon, uncle, I'm sure I had no intention of " "There, that will do, I want no apology, I want obedience and attention to my expressed wishes. I suppose that you expect to get away for a few days' holiday?"
I admire your gentleness, but I deplore your unbusinesslike moderation. You lack public spirit." The Colonel grinned savagely. He felt that the attorney was teasing him, but he could not quite tell how.
A man whose brain devotes its hinterland to making odd phrases and nicknames out of ill-conceived words, whose conception of life is a lump of auriferous rock to which all the value is given by rare veins of unbusinesslike joy, who reads Boccaccio and Rabelais and Shakespeare with gusto, and uses "Stertoraneous Shover" and "Smart Junior" as terms of bitterest opprobrium, is not likely to make a great success under modern business conditions.
It is no wonder that business is such a sordid affair. We have done our best to exclude from it every passionate interest that is capable of lighting up activity with eagerness and joy. "Unbusinesslike" we have called the devotion of craftsmen and scientists.
And the man always furnishes the horse and buggy. Well, now, what's the difference between my taking you buggy-riding and furnishing the horse and buggy, and taking you horse-back-riding and furnishing the horses?" She shook her head, and declined to answer, at the same time looking at the door as if to intimate that it was time for this unbusinesslike conversation to end. He made one more effort.
"Ah, well, it'll be a good job for all of us, if when our time comes we can say that with as much truth as he!" Mary's Stepping Aside "How very foolish of you! So unbusinesslike!" cried Mrs. Croft angrily. "I could not do anything else, Hetty. Poor Ethel is worse off than we are. She has her widowed mother to help; they are all so poor, and it was such a struggle for Mrs.
And the pretty girls who have taken off the tickets, and worn the garments, and carefully restored the tickets, and lied to my carmen the pretty girls imagine they have deceived me. They have merely amused me. My detective reports are excellent reading. And, moreover, I like to think that I have helped a pretty girl to make the best of herself. 'Immoral and unbusinesslike, Mr. Hugo. 'Admitted.
Cleanliness and ample daylight would have been deemed unbusinesslike, as revolutionary and dangerous as a typewriter. One day, in winter, Sir George had taken cold, and he had attributed his misfortune, in language which he immediately regretted, to the fact that 'that d d woman had cleaned the windows' probably with a damp cloth.
He was thinking that Eugene was nice and good looking, a little pale and thin to be wholly forceful, perhaps, he wasn't sure. His hair a little too long. His manner, perhaps, a bit too deliberate. Still he was nice. Why did he wear a soft hat? Why did artists always insist on wearing soft hats, most of them? It was so ridiculous, so unbusinesslike.
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