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The superintendent of a railroad, or of a division, has to do with the employees, never with the customers, and his professional manner is not likely to be distinguished by suavity. So he unconsciously squared his shoulders when he said, "I'm Bannon, of MacBride & Company."
Thousands of persons may be reading your advertisement while you are eating, or sleeping, or attending to your business; hence public attention is attracted, new customers come to you, and, if you render them a satisfactory equivalent for their money, they continue to patronize you and recommend you to their friends. At the commencement of his career, Dr. Brandreth was indebted to Mr.
The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. They would surely have resisted secession could they have lived to see the shape it assumed. I travelled through the Northwest considerably during the winter of 1860-1. We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa.
I do not know whether it is native in her, or whether it is a grace acquired from long dealing with those kindly-hearted customers of hers in Charlesbridge, but she is of a most munificent spirit, and returns every smallest benefit with some present from her basket.
If, in dull moments of trade, when no customers were near, she made use of the seats lawfully provided for employees, she was at once ordered by a floor-walker to do something that required standing.
When a man knows this, potentially he knows all things. But, just therefore, he did not stand high with his sect any more than with his customers, though a fact which Marston himself never suspected the influence of his position had made them choose him for a deacon.
The only thing which he made quite clear was his distress on finding that Madame Plumet was a woman whom it was hard to silence or to convince by argument. "It appears that she has gone back to her old trade of dress-making, and that one of her first customers God knows how she got there! was Mademoiselle Jeanne Charnot. "Well, last Monday Mademoiselle Jeanne was selecting a hat.
He decided not to say anything to his partner until he made a move toward investigating, himself. The next morning he took a half dozen names of Brauer's customers at random from the ledger and he made out bills for their premiums. Practically all of Brauer's business was fire insurance, so Fred had typical cases for his test.
Don't forget that they are swift customers right here, and the chances are you'll shoot back of them," said Bones, as they stood at their posts. "There, Frank!" exclaimed Ralph, as a couple of dark objects suddenly burst into view, and sped past them. But Frank was not taken unawares. He had shot ducks more than once before, and knew how to properly gauge their flight.
But before beginning our ascent, we must first buy lanterns from an old tradeswoman called Madame Tres-Propre, whose regular customers we are. It is amazing what a quantity of these paper lanterns we consume.