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Jacob Farnum at last looked up from the final reading of the telegram in his hands. Captain Jack Benson’s gaze was fixed on his employer’s face. Hal Hastings was looking out of a window, with almost a bored look in his eyes. “You young men wanted action,” announced Mr. Farnum, quietly. “I think you’ll get it.” “Soon?” questioned Jack, eagerly.
He forgot his messages; he was easily diverted from the straight path of duty by the attractions of stray cats and dogs, which he followed down narrow alleys into unsavoury courts; by the comedies of the streets, which he contemplated open-mouthed, to the detriment of his employer’s interests; or by the dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to shriek pierceingly in a crowd, which disliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of the national spectacle.
“I hear you lost five hundred dollars the other night,” he observed gravely, watching his young employer’s face. “Well, what of it?” Ramon enquired, a bit testily. “You can’t afford it,” Cortez replied. “And not only the money … you’ve got to think of your reputation. You know how these gringos are. They keep things quiet. They expect a young man to lead a quiet life and tend to business.
Again, Dick Whittington, the poor country lad, who faithfully serves his master in London, marries his employer’s daughter. This theme is very frequently found in ballads, romances, and dramas; in all cases the way to fortune for the lover is through marriage the daughter carries the inheritance. Let us take Assipattle of the Scottish legend as a type of these hero wooers.
Now, then, Arminius," he continued, as the Greek left the room, "what did we do last night, and what befel us?—for I can remember nothing clearly." The giant shook his tawny locks away from his brow, and gazed into his employer’s face with a look of stolid inquiry, and then answered— "Do! we did nothing, that I know!
Sometimes, there is a letter or two to take up to his employer’s, in Russell-square; and then, the wealthy man of business, hearing his voice, calls out from the dining-parlour,—‘Come in, Mr. Smith:’ and Mr.
Five months later they arrived in the Thames, the only bad weather they had encountered being a storm as they entered the Channel. They anchored at Gravesend, and the captain told Stephen to land and take a post-chaise up to London, and report to Mr. Hewson that the Tiger would come up on the tide next morning. It was eight o’clock in the evening when Stephen arrived at his employer’s. Mr.
Young Harry Paine, who was to marry his employer’s daughter on Monday, had come to the tent with a crowd of friends and danced all evening. Afterward, he begged Ántonia to let him walk home with her. She said she supposed he was a nice young man, as he was one of Miss Frances’s friends, and she did n’t mind.
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