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Sam Hunter, who has the entire command of Doctor Portman, brought Bows down from London to contest the organ-loft, and her candidate carried the chair. When Sir Francis Clavering quitted this worthless life, the same little indefatigable canvasser took the borough by storm, and it is now represented by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.
There was that about his humble mien, his tired look, his decayed-gentility clothes, that almost reached the mustard-seed of charity that still remained, remote and lonely, in the empty vastness of my heart, notwithstanding I observed a portfolio under his arm, and said to myself, Behold, Providence hath delivered his servant into the hands of another canvasser.
The large and increasing demand of bush residents for time-payment works has induced the publishers of this " "My God!" said Macpherson, "it's a canvasser. Here, Tom Sayers, Tom Sayers!" and he whistled and called for his dog. "Now," he said, "will you go out of this office quietly, or will you be thrown out? It's for yourself to decide, but you've only got while a duck wags his tail to decide in.
I remember, too, the odd effect of seeing her in the distance going about Handitch, like any stranger canvasser; the queer emotion of her approach along the street, the greeting as she passed. The morning of the polling she vanished from the constituency. I saw her for an instant in the passage behind our Committee rooms. "Going?" said I. She nodded. "Stay it out. I want you to see the fun.
Days passed, and her patience was unrewarded save for a sharp ring from a sewing-machine agent, and another from a book canvasser. Sarah could not understand it. Surely, her neighbors in the block must know of her arrival even if those in her immediate vicinity on the street did not. Occasionally she met women in the halls, or going in and out of the big main door.
Don't you think I shall make an excellent canvasser? Now, please, understand," she added, "I expect you to come and see me!" "Where is the flat?" he inquired. "Aberdeen Mansion," she answered. "Jimmy took it while we were abroad " "Without seeing it? Good gracious!" said Colonel Faversham. That was just like Jimmy and Bridget. "Oh dear, yes," she said.
His friends at Birmingham persuaded him to leave that work to others, their advice being no doubt prompted, in part at least, by the ludicrous experience of his qualifications as a canvasser which the following incident furnished them.
"Do you think you understand the duties of a canvasser?" he asked. "Yes, sir." "You haven't devoted much time to it. You only took the documents yesterday." "True, sir; but I have spent several hours in examining them." "Were there any things you did not understand?" Walter mentioned one or two points. "Now, that I may get an idea of your working ability, suppose you try to insure me.
"I do not like to give you permission," replied mamma, looking considerably worried, "for George does not wish you to have them." "Oh, but George is out, mother out for all day," rejoined the precocious canvasser, "and will never know anything about it."
He was already married, and he brought his young wife with him from the South. He soon connected himself as a canvasser with one of the great agencies and advanced rapidly. He was so smiling, so bland, so insistent, so magnetic, that business came to him rapidly.
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