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The floor-walker obligingly joined in the search, going to the door and scanning the pavement and the street-crossing at which they had left the car, but to no purpose. "I can buy a new belt and have it charged," she said to Lloyd, when she came back to report, "but there is no way to get the lost address.
To wake up at forty a factory hand! a floor-walker! a banker! a college professor! a man about town or any other respectably successful, humdrum, square wooden peg-of-a-thing in a square tight hole!
At the shop that advertised for a cashier a floor-walker had glanced at her over his shoulder for an instant, snapped out that the place was filled, and walked away. The name she sought appeared across the way, lettered upon a row of first-floor windows; it was a photographer's. "Now!" said Annette. "The end this is the end!"
Why, Johnny Hayes, the Marathon victor, and at one time world champion, one of my valued friends and supporters, was a floor-walker in Bloomingdale's big department store. Surely with Johnny Hayes as an example, any young man in a city can hope to make his body all that a vigorous man's body should be. I once made a speech to which I gave the title "The Strenuous Life."
When I entered I approached the "floor-walker," and handing him my sample, said: "Have you any calico like this?" "Yes, sir," said he. "Third counter to the right." I went to the third counter to the right, and showed my sample to the saleman in attendance there. He looked at it on both sides. Then he said: "We haven't any of this." "That gentleman said you had," said I.
"You will have to ask the floor-walker," replied Julia. She did so, but he said she must wait until evening; he could not make any exceptions. So she was obliged to control her impatience. Scarcely five minutes afterward a crash was heard. The equilibrium of the rack of dolls had been disturbed, and the whole collection was dashed to the floor.
Suddenly the obnoxious floor-walker appeared at the entrance with a hurried and intent manner. Then he paused a second or two and concealed himself behind a show-case. Roger now saw that his eyes were fixed on a girl who had just preceded him, and who, after a furtive glance backward, hastened up the avenue.
Almost was she pretty now, with the unique luminosity in her eyes that comes to a girl with her first suitor and a kitten with its first mouse. "Maggie Toole's got a fellow at last," was the word that went round among the paper-box girls. "Pipe Mag's floor-walker" thus the Give and Takes expressed their indifferent contempt.
Cynthia laughed outright, since Ephraim could not by any chance have worn any of the articles in question. "Why, Cousin Ephraim," she exclaimed, "you can't buy gentlemen's things here." "Oh, I guess you can," said Ephraim, and hobbled confidently in at the doorway. There we will leave him for a while conversing in an undertone with a floor-walker, and follow Jethro.
He resented particularly the fact that one canvasser with whom he shook hands wore a bright red tie and had on yellow shoes. The insistence on department store models for suits and floor-walker manners pained him. "To hell with such cattle," he thought, but on the surface he smiled and shook hands and said how glad he would be to work with them.
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