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Updated: June 20, 2025
The neighbourhood seemed to breathe a tranquil prosperity. Red-cheeked emissaries of butcher, baker, and grocer, order-book in hand, knocked cheerily at kitchen doors, and went smiling away; the ponies they drove were well fed and frisky, their carts spick and span.
She put it into her pocket for the chances of the walk and the day, and fortune for once seemed to befriend her; for, on their entering Grinstead's shop, in which two or three people were now, as always, congregated, making play of examining the books, or business of writing down the titles of new works in the order-book, there was Mr. Preston. He bowed as they came in.
I can also send you to the man of whom I hired the carriage to fetch my visitor from the railway, on the day when she arrived his order-book may help you to your date, even if his coachman who drove me proves to be of no use. These things I can do, and will do, on conditions. I recite them. First condition!
Captain Hawkins came on board and gave me an order-book, saying, "Mr Simple, I have a great objection to written orders, as I consider that the articles of war are quite sufficient to regulate any ship. Still, a captain is in a very responsible situation, and if any accident occurs he is held amenable.
The rapid extension of railways and steam navigation, both at home and abroad, occasioned a largely increased demand for machinery of all kinds. Our order-book was always full; and every mechanical workshop felt the impulse of expanding trade. There was an increased demand for skilled mechanical labour a demand that was far in excess of the supply.
And then with rapid bird-like movements, and with her head on one side, Seraphine measured Lesbia's waist and bust, muttering little argotic expressions sotto voce as she did so. 'Waist three inches too large, shoulders six inches too narrow, she said decisively, and she dictated some figures to one of the damsels, who wrote them down in an order-book.
Murray turned from the disgusting scene, and, passing on, was met by Monsieur Charlie, who, order-book in hand, with his dark-skinned, woolly covered cranium and squat figure, resembled more a toad than a human being.
The Irishman had just dumped a trunk on the sidewalk, ready to be loaded on Jim's wagon. "And now," continued his mistress, "go to the office and bring me my order-book where'll I go for your baggage, sir?" "That is a matter I will talk about later."
As to these guests, you could not have gotten their names on one side of Kitty's order-book, nor on both sides, for that matter.
"What for?" says she. "To take the responsibility of making Mr. Davager's bed off your hands for this morning only," says I. "Any more orders?" says she. "One more," says I. "I want to hire Sam for the morning. Put it down in the order-book that he's to be brought round to my office at ten." In case you should think Sam was a man, I'd better perhaps tell you he was a pony.
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