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Updated: May 31, 2025
And just while I was wishing for something really big to tackle, it came along in the shape of that big floor-walker! He was without a hat, and his eyes looked fifty ways at once. But you've got to look fifty-one if you want to catch Nance Olden. I ran up the stairs of the first flat-house and rang the bell.
Nevertheless, as Governor Abbott entered, in response to Barclay's "Come!" it was difficult to believe that he was aught but what he appeared to be, a courteous, conspicuously well-dressed and white-haired gentleman, of sixty or thereabouts, smooth-shaven save for chop side-whiskers of iron gray, with a habit of rubbing his hands, and an inclination from the hips forward which suggested a floor-walker.
In charge of the department of the shop wherein she toiled, there was a man who had long since parted with the faintest trace of principle or conscience. He was plausible, fine-looking, after a certain half-feminine type, and apparently vigilant and faithful in his duties as a floor-walker; but his spotless linen concealed a heart that plotted all the evil his hands dared to commit.
The result, in its usual manifestation, is the average bad actor a man with the cerebrum of a floor-walker and the vanity of a fashionable clergyman. The result, in its highest and holiest form is the actor-manager, with his retinue of press-agents, parasites and worshipping wenches perhaps the most preposterous and awe-inspiring donkey that civilization has yet produced.
Say, this is the greatest town we have struck yet for excitement, and I guess dad will not have a chance to think of his sickness. This morning we went into a big department store, and, by gosh! we found the count that dad was going to fight was a floor-walker, and the countess was behind a counter selling soap.
Smithson cleared his throat doubtfully, and in his stress of feeling he even relaxed a trifle that majestical erectness of carriage that had made him so valuable as a floor-walker. "She's not exactly a er a thief," he ventured. "You are trifling, Smithson," the owner of the store exclaimed, in high exasperation. "Not a thief!
He got the impression that those washed pale eyes were filmed with dreams, and that the intelligence, the thing, that dwelt within the skull, fluttered and beat against the dream-films and no farther. "How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and-span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox.
And that big floor-walker there gets a commission from the newspapers every time he tells them " She gave a squawk for all the world like a dried-up little hen scuttling out of a yellow dog's way, and we took the elevator to the second floor. The minute I closed the door of the little fitting-room she held out the lace to me. "I have changed my mind," she said, "and shall give you the lace back.
I want only one of your good men and that man is yourself." "Me!" growled Barlow. "What kind of floor-walker d'you think I am? I'm too busy!" "Too busy to take personal charge, and get personal credit, for one of the biggest cases that ever went through this office?" Maggie had sought only to excite his vanity.
"I can't put it aside for you," she explained, "because the floor-walker would not allow that; but I'll arrange so you will have one of the lot, never fear." "But I want this one," declared Katy. "My goodness gracious, you foolish midget! They're all as much alike as rows of peas in a pod," exclaimed her friend, a trifle impatiently. "No," insisted the little girl.
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