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"Don't I get a pourboire?" grumbled the driver. "No, sir. You're lucky to get anything." The detective started. "You know my name? What do you mean?" The cab was already moving, but the driver turned on his seat and, waving his hand in derision, he called back: "Ask Beau Cocono!" And then to his horse: "Hue, cocotte!"
It seems we're lucky to get it even at that." And Chirac shrugged his shoulders as if to indicate that the situation and the price ought to be accepted philosophically. Gerald gave the driver five francs. He examined the piece and demanded a pourboire. "Oh! Damn!" said Gerald, and, because he had no smaller change, parted with another two francs. "Is any one coming out for this damned valise?"
That I should have risked perishing upon a trumpery question of a pourboire, depicted in lively colours the perils that perpetually surrounded us. Though, to be sure, the initial mistake had been committed before that; and if I had not suffered myself to be drawn a little deep in confidences to the innocent Dolly, there need have been no tumble at the inn of Kirkby-Lonsdale.
Kent overpaid the chauffeur in spite of Judy's protestations and then Professor Green came back and gave him an extra pourboire. "Let us squander our hard-earned wealth if we want to, Miss Judy," begged Kent.
The coachman came to the door to speak to her; then nimbly sprang upon the box, and gave his bony horses one of those cuts of the whip that announce a princely pourboire. The carriage had already turned the corner of the Rue du Dragon, and Martial, ashamed and irresolute, had not moved from the place where he had stopped his horse, just around the corner of the Rue Saint Pares.
One dollar an hour is the average charge made for these vehicles, the driver expecting, as in similar cases in Paris, Berlin, or elsewhere, a trifle as a pourboire at the end of the service for which he is engaged. Where these ruinous structures which pass for public carriages originally came from is a conundrum; but there can be no possible doubt as to their antiquity.
Then he began to croak that it was a shame not to give a pourboire, and, seeing that did not help matters, as I simply walked up the hotel steps, he shouted in his ill-temper, first "Vous n'etes pas Francais!" and then "Vous etes Prussien!"
You have no umbrella. Surely you do not mean me to drop you on an open road in this storm." I was becoming curious. "It will do it will do," she said. I thought it strange, but I called out the order to Alphonse and bade him promise a good pourboire. As we drove away, all of the many people in the streets were hurrying to take refuge from the sudden and unexpected downfall of heavy rain.
And Furthermore, that title to said Meal does not pass until the party of the second part has conveyed, of his mansuetude and proper charity, a gratuity, fee, honorarium, lagniappe, pourboire, easement or tip of not less than 15 per cent of the price of said Meal; which easement, while customarily spoken of as a free-will grant or gratuity, is to be constructively regarded as an entail and a necessary encumbrance upon said Meal.
"Would ye make our burgess a liar," said the rustic reproachfully; "and shall I have no pourboire?" "Nay, thou shalt have pourboire," and he gave him a small coin. "A la bonne heure," cried the clown, and his features beamed with disproportionate joy. "The Virgin go with ye; come up, Jenny!" and back he went "stomach to earth," as his nation is pleased to call it.
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