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Her business life made her responsible only to herself, and she felt able to take care of herself anywhere. Now it came over her that she could not aspire to aristocracy and allow negro hall-boys to send men up in the elevator and telephone her afterward. She snatched up the telephone and said: "That you?" "Yassum, Miss Adair." "How dare you send anybody up without sending the name up first?"
Why don't you find out for yourself? Have Annie get the timetable." "I will," she said. Leaving the piano, she went to the door and called: "Annie! Annie!" The negress appeared on the threshold. "Yassum!" "Go ask one of the hall-boys to bring me a New York Central timetable." "Yassum!" The maid crossed the room, and disappeared through another door.
They have built not better than they knew, for that could not be, but costlier, and they have finished in hard woods, with marble halls and marbleized hall-boys, and the first expense has been much greater; but actual disaster has not yet followed; perhaps it is too soon; we must not be impatient; but what has already happened is what happens with other beautiful things that the æsthetic invent.
One of the latter was approaching him with an insolent smile when a figure darted from the vestibule, and, brushing the waiter aside, seized Demorest's two hands in his and held him at arm's length. "Demorest, old man!" "Stacy, old chap!" "But where's your team? I've had all the spare hostlers and hall-boys listening for you at the gate. And where's Barker?
"But how could you install a dictagraph without their finding it out?" "Easiest thing you know. We'll probably have to rent an apartment in the same building or another one near-by, and one of the hall-boys there may be workin' for us now. If not, we can usually bring him in.
So great had been the newspaper palaver regarding the arrival of a new multimillionaire from the West and the palace he was erecting that even tradesmen, clerks, and hall-boys knew of her. Almost invariably, when called upon to state her name in such quarters, she was greeted by a slight start of recognition, a swift glance of examination, whispers, even open comment. That was something.
The two had supper together, and Sargeant proposed the theatre. "No, no; I've got to work to-night," asserted Condy. After dinner, while they were smoking their cigars in a window of the main room, one of the hall-boys came up and touched Condy on the arm. "Mr. Eckert, and Mr. Hendricks, and Mr.
It was within ten minutes of train time, and we were surrounded by no fewer than thirty German men guests, porters, hall-boys who listened curiously, and offered no assistance. I looked at my companion, and she looked at me, and ground her teeth. "Then you absolutely refuse us the courtesy of walking across the street with us and mending matters, do you?" I said.
There were, apparently, endless humiliations to be experienced by a woman "whose husband did not support her". Some zealous relative had suggested to her the idea that the "hall-boys" might think she was not really married; and so now she was impelled to speculate upon the psychology of these Ethiopian functionaries, and look for slights and disapproval from them!
"Miss Langdale came out and you should have seen the Hackstaff woman go for her." He drew in his breath sharply at the reminiscence. "I thought there was going to be a murder done on Riverside Drive. Miss Langdale screamed and ran back into the apartment. There was a good deal of confusion. The hall-boys came to the rescue. In the excitement, I managed to slip into the elevator with her.
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