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He shaves his corners so narrowly, and doesn't give conveyances enough room. I call him very reckless." "Nonsense! He's an excellent driver!" declared her father. "One of the best chauffeurs we've ever had, though he's only a young chap. He's wonderfully intelligent too. I'd trust him with repairs as well as any man at a garage. A civil fellow, too."
"Why not? provided, of course, they were well, gentlefolk and associated accordingly." "But one must associate with one's pupils." "Oh, certainly, certainly; just as one must associate with one's maids and chauffeurs and dressmakers cordially and kindly, but with a difference." "But but, dear Mrs. Vanderpool, you wouldn't want your children trained that way, would you?" "Certainly not, my dear.
Among those who have been principally exposed to it are the servants, especially butlers and chauffeurs, hotel porters, bell-boys, railway porters and guards, all taxi-drivers, pew-openers, curates, bishops, and a large part of the peerage. The terrible ravages that have been made by the Americans on English morality are witnessed on every hand. Whole classes of society are hopelessly damaged.
Let us take all the worry and responsibility," she interviewed the firm, and by writing out a cheque disembarrassed herself at a stroke of every anxiety incident to defective magnetos, bad petrol, bad rubber, punctures, driving licences, bursts, collisions, damages, and human chauffeurs. She had all the satisfactions of owning a car without any of the cares.
"But how, in Heaven's name," asked Mark, "did you get into that house? It is the home of " "Sure it is," answered Saunders. "Sure it is. But the family is away, and they left only the chauffeur at the residence. Chauffeurs are fine fellows under certain circumstances. They have acquired the habit." "The conditions," laughed Mark, "will, I suppose, appear in your accounts?" "In my accounts?
"Good God!" cried the chauffeur. "And yet," mused P. Sybarite, "they'd have you believe all taxicab chauffeurs mercenary!" Recklessly he forced the money into the man's not altogether inhospitable palm. "For being a good little tight-mouth," he explained gravely. "Forever and ever, amen!" protested the latter fervently. "And thank you!"
I'll grant you, though, that lunchroom food is mighty good. The best place to eat is always a counter where the chauffeurs congregate. They get awfully hungry, you see, driving round in the cold, and when they want food they want it hot and tasty. There's a little hash-alley called Frank's, up on Broadway near 77th, where I guess the ham and eggs and French fried is as good as any Mr.
The top floor of the main building was a priceless room and reserved for us. Curtained off at the far end were the beds of the chauffeurs who had to sleep on the premises while the rest were billeted in the town; the other end resolved itself into a big untidy, but oh so jolly, sitting room.
By that means he dissipated any undue curiosity that might be experienced by some lounger on the pavement who happened to notice the change of chauffeurs, while he avoided a prolonged scrutiny by the visitors already packed in chairs on both sides of the porch.
"I have been forced to learn from a casual reading of society events that this remarkable heiress is without an equal as an equestrienne, that she paints, sings, drives a sixty-horse-power Mercedes with a skill and a courage which discourages the French chauffeurs, and does other athletic and artistic feats, but I have yet to learn that she golfs."
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