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'There's a letter for you on my desk, said Wentworth, after shaking hands with him. 'I'll be there in a minute. Kenyon entered the room and found the letter. Then he did a very unbusinesslike thing. He pressed the writing to his lips and placed the letter in his pocket-book. This act deserves mention because it is an unusual thing in the City.
A most unbusinesslike hour for burglars, I thought. Why, it will be breakfast-time before they get in. Suddenly there came a crash, and some substance striking against the blind fell upon the floor. I sprang out of bed and threw open the window. A red-haired young gentleman, scantily clad in a sweater and a pair of flannel trousers, stood on the lawn below me. "Good morning," he said cheerily.
I have grown accustomed to being the most unbusinesslike person in any given company; and it gave me a sort of dizzy exaltation to find I was not the most unpunctual person in that company. I was afterwards told by many Americans that my impression was quite correct; that American unpunctuality was really very prevalent, and extended to much more important things.
People will have something to work from and something to work toward, in judging what they can do with employers and with workmen around them. Then we will have team work and civilization we will have a democracy the Germans would like to be asked to belong to. The most gravely important, unbusinesslike and unscientific blunders people make in economics, are their judgments of facts about people.
And it was a baby that had kept her away from church this Lilac Sunday; a little, merry, red-headed boy baby that had come in the early morning to make glad the heart of unbusinesslike Billy Evans and his neat businesslike wife.
But, undoubtedly, the effect is to render business life distasteful. The university nurtures all sorts of lofty ideals, which business has no use for." "Then the effect is undemocratic?" "No, it is simply unbusinesslike. The boy is a better democrat when he leaves college than he will be later, if he goes into business.
He was a silent person, and a rather neglected person, and unbusinesslike, and unsuccessful, and uncultured, and unsociable, and unbeautiful. So there was nothing worse than emptiness where his secret story used to be. He had not found it worth while to fill the space. He had not found it worth while to shut the door.
I did not think so. Where, then? Monte Carlo! No doubt the reader will smile at my attempts as a private detective, but, realizing the circumstances by which I was surrounded, there may be some excuse for my unbusinesslike way of going to work. Besides, I was not sure that Kaffar was alive; I only had some vague grounds for thinking he was. I went to Monte Carlo.
That night Sim Ripson complained that it had been the poorest Sunday he had ever had at Tough Case; the boys drank, but it was a sort of nerveless, unbusinesslike way that Sim Ripson greatly regretted; and very few bets were settled in Sim Ripson's principal stock in trade. When Sim finally learned the cause of his trouble, he promptly announced his intention of converting Mrs.
"But you spoke of your business experience with Cap'n Jeth; or I thought you did." The little archaeologist looked very solemn. "Such experiences as I have had with Captain Hallett," he observed, "have been ah most unbusinesslike." They parted a few minutes later. Said Nelson, gloomily: "I'm afraid the situation hasn't changed a whole lot, after all, Mr. Bangs.
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