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Psmith stepped forward and touched him on the arm. "May I have a word with you in private?" "Zo?" Psmith drew him away. "You don't know who that is?" he whispered, nodding towards the young man. "No gendleman he is," asserted the head-waiter. "Der gendleman would not der gat into " Psmith shook his head pityingly.
To this end she assiduously showed herself at the restaurants they frequented, where, attended by the troubled Gerty, she lunched luxuriously, as she said, on her expectations. "My dear Gerty, you wouldn't have me let the head-waiter see that I've nothing to live on but Aunt Julia's legacy? Think of Grace Stepney's satisfaction if she came in and found us lunching on cold mutton and tea!
They rose and left the room, and were bowed out by the head-waiter. "How perfectly idyllic!" cried Isabel. "Is this Rochester, New York, or is it some vale of Arcady? Let's go out and see."
Still the melancholy ceremony continued: for the landlady was not without a secret hope, that in spite of his reserve and the mystery surrounding him, he would have sent her a last word. The cook and head-waiter, interrogated as to their dealings with the old gentleman, testified solemnly to the fact of their having performed their duty by him.
The head-waiter's eye rested upon the young man with a new interest and respect. "He is noble?" he inquired with awe. "He is here strictly incognito, you understand," said Psmith warningly. The head-waiter nodded. The young man meanwhile had broken down the cat's reserve, and was now standing with her in his arms, apparently anxious to fight all-comers in her defence.
"Sure you are!" nodded Spike, "and I'm head-waiter, eater-in-chief t' the turk' while she lasts, an' chief mourner when she's gone so now I'll go an' make th' tea, only don't begin without me a fair start an' all together, see?" and he vanished into the kitchen. "But a whole turkey!" said Hermione, viewing it with feminine, knowledgeful eyes, "and then all this ham and tongue and Mr.
"No, I shouldn't think it was," said the minister securely. "Well you're right." Evans twisted himself about in his chair, and hung his legs over one of the arms. "The real reason why I wish you to preach this sermon is because I have just been offering a fee to the head-waiter at our hotel." "And you feel degraded with him by his acceptance? For it is a degradation."
That night Lemuel told Mrs. Harmon that she must not expect him to do anything thenceforward but look after the accounts and the general management; she must get a head-waiter, and a boy to run the elevator. She consented to this, as she would have consented to almost anything else that he proposed. He had become necessary to the management of the St.
I don't honestly want it!" she protested. "Rot!" said William. "He's got a right to bring it!" In a moment a head-waiter was bending over them, his eyes moving rapidly from one to the other, under contracted brows. "Butter, please," said William briskly. "Beg pardon?" "BUTTER. We've no butter." "Oh, certainly!"
He could try nothing more that morning. It had brought him nothing but rebuffs. He hastened home and threw himself down on the sofa to try and think out his situation. "Do they still require of us bricks without straw? I thought all that was over. Well, I suspect that I will have to ask Mr. Featherton to speak to his head-waiter in my behalf. I wonder if the head-waiter will demand my diploma.
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