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Updated: June 11, 2025
In many fashionable houses the saleswomen are not allowed to leave the counter between the hours of eleven A. M. and three P. M., except for lunch, and if a saleswoman has a customer when the lunch-hour arrives, she is obliged to remain and wait on the customer, and the time so consumed is deducted from lunch-time. "If mistakes are made, they are charged to the saleswomen and cash-girls.
In any case, the lunch-hour and the catalogue of what she was so vulgar as to eat were of importance in Una's history, because that hour broke the routine, gave her for an hour a deceptive freedom of will, of choice between Boston beans and New York beans.
He was too drunk to recognize her, and she sat in his arm-chair, knitting and holding smelling salts to her nose for he was pretty far gone with alcoholic poisoning and, as soon as he was able to understand her, she said: "Look here, mon ami, do not go to the tables again. Take a good sleep now and come and see me this afternoon." He slept till the lunch-hour.
Three o'clock usually struck before her day had fairly begun unless, of course, she happened to be very busy, in which case she would be ready for contact with the world at the lunch-hour. Her main occupation was to charm, allure, and gratify a man; for that she lived. Her distractions were music, the reading of novels, Le Journal, and Les Grandes Modes. And for the war she knitted.
Williams wheeled and cursed the fat man furiously. It was during the lunch-hour that Ramon Alfarez called at the Garavel home, finding the banker and his daughter still loitering over their midday meal and discussing the topic that had electrified the whole city. "Ah, Ramon!" the old gentleman began, eagerly. "Be seated and tell us quickly the latest news.
He covered up the fire in the stove. Every hour he had to get up to give the baby spoonfuls of lukewarm sugar and water. That did not prevent his going off to his work in the morning as usual. He even took advantage of his lunch-hour to make a declaration of the birth at the mayor's.
He seized on every salesman on the Southern route as he came in, and inquired about the religion and politics of the merchants in his district. He even forgot to worry about his next rise in salary, and found it much more exciting to rush back for an important letter after a quick lunch than to watch the time and make sure that he secured every minute of his lunch-hour.
Sweet to her even when he told her that he was engaged, even when it was evident that he regarded her as an older sister or as a very young and understanding aunt was Sanford Hunt's liking. "Why do you like me if you do?" she demanded one lunch-hour, when he had brought her a bar of milk-chocolate.
By noon the heat of the day had become intense, the sides of the battalions of towering buildings across the narrow street seemed to become radiators for the viciousness of the summer sun, the voices of newsboys, the murmur of the lunch-hour crowd twanged a man's nerves, and I noticed for the first time the devilish song of the electric fan on my wall.
'But surely your own office would not be so hard upon you? 'It is not my own office. It is another office the Hotspur. 'Oh dear! What have you done about it, Frank? 'I called at their office in my lunch-hour, and I requested them to send down an accountant to examine Farintosh's books. He will be here to-morrow morning, and I have leave of absence for the day.
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