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'If so, it would be but the matter of a moment to procure a second cup; and, as her coffee-pot was quite full She raised the lid coquettishly, and again her eyes lingered upon the short dark hair and the straight brows above the gray eyes. The waiter with ready tact departed in search of the second cup; madame replaced the lid of the coffee-pot.
He became more tipsy every stage, and the last from Portsmouth, when he pulled out his money he could find no silver, so he handed down a note, and desired the waiter to change it.
So I spent most of my noon hour rustlin' through florist shops to get the particular kind of red roses I'd been tipped off to find. I located 'em, though, and bought up the whole stock, sendin' part to the house and luggin' the rest to the head waiter. While I was at the hotel, too, I got next to the orchestra leader and gave him the names of some pieces he was to spring durin' dinner.
But a waiter in the restaurant was discovered who remembered him as Number 5, and that on the 12th he had entertained a gentleman to dinner at seven o'clock a tall, thin, dark-faced gentleman, who looked like yes, like an actor: a nicely dressed gentleman.
He was wondering how he must carry the news to these two living souls, and fling them once more to the depths of despair such as they had endured through the murder of a husband and father. He was aroused from his grievous meditations by a sharp hammering on the main doors. It was the police. Kars turned at once. "Open that door!" he said sharply to the waiter standing beside it.
For what have you done you, a mere Canaanite, hewer of wood and drawer of water to some grossly Philistine firm of city bankers to deserve this immunity from anxiety and distress; while I, with my superior culture, my ambition and talents, am condemned to that beastly squeaking wire-wove mattress upstairs, and a job-lot of furniture which some previous German waiter has ejected in disgust from his bedroom in the basement?
Last night the waiter put the celery on with the cheese, and I knew that summer was indeed dead. Other signs of autumn there may be the reddening leaf, the chill in the early-morning air, the misty evenings but none of these comes home to me so truly.
Pickwick's bedroom is described as a sort of surprise, being "a more comfortable-looking apartment that his short experience of the accommodation of the Great White House had led him to expect." Now this was bad enough, but his sketch of the waiter who received the arriving party is worse: "A corpulent man, with a fortnight's napkin under his arm and coeval stockings."
No more am I. I did not walk from Park Straat and take your defences by storm, and subject myself to the insult of a raised eyebrow on the countenance of a foolish young waiter, to talk nonsense even with you, who are cleverer with your non-committing platitudes than any man I know."
A Frenchman asks the waiter the price of an unpriced dish and then orders something else; but the American, as a rule, is either too proud or too foolish to inquire into these details. At home he is beset by a hideous fear that some waiter will think he is of a mercenary nature; and when he is abroad this trait in him is accentuated.
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