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"As you can't get what you want, madam, I'm sure you won't mind my taking your place," apologized a cheerful voice. "Madam" was so dumfounded that she gave way. And Win, thankful for a change of sex in her customer, had put on her polite saleslady air before she realized that she was face to face with Jim Logan, her motoring acquaintance of the park.
Then came an old lady who said, "I bought some organdie dress goods for a shirt-waist last Tuesday and I would like to exchange them for a music box for my daughter's little boy, Freddie, if you please!" The saleslady again showed her teeth and the old lady ducked for cover. After about fifty people had rushed up to the saleslady and then rushed away again, I went over and spoke to her.
"Er-this one is a little shinier than that one?" "Perhaps the finish is a little higher," ventured the saleslady. "Sh-shinier," said Jethro. "Yes, shinier, if you please to call it so." "W-what would you call it?" By this time the saleslady had become quite hysterical, and altogether incapable of performing her duties.
He, curiously enough, had some fifteen minutes before gone in at the same doorway, questioned the same floor-walker, and he found himself in due time walking amongst a bewildering lot of models on the third floor, followed by a giggling saleswoman. "What kind of a dress do you want, sir?" asked the saleslady, for we are impelled to call her so. "S-silk cloth," said Jethro.
"Er-this one is a little shinier than that one?" "Perhaps the finish is a little higher," ventured the saleslady. "Sh-shinier," said Jethro. "Yes, shinier, if you please to call it so." "W-what would you call it?" By this time the saleslady had become quite hysterical, and altogether incapable of performing her duties.
"What shades of silk would you like, sir?" "Shades? shades? What do you mean by shades?" "Why, colors," said the saleslady, giggling openly. "Green," said Jethro, with considerable emphasis. The saleslady clapped her hand over her mouth and led the way to another model. "You don't call that green do you? That's not green enough."
Afterwards, when she became a saleslady in the Bagatelle, that flamboyant department store in Faber Street, she earned four dollars and a half a week. Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist.
Had not the saleslady been obdurate, Lise would have had it on credit; but she did succeed, by an initial payment the ensuing Saturday, in having it withdrawn from public gaze.
She pointed to glasses on the kitchen table. He poured Washington State Chardonnay for each of them and held up one glass in a silent toast. "Salud," she said. She turned the ruler over in her hand thoughtfully. "Did you say it was for your mistress?" "Yes," Oliver said. "The saleslady didn't say anything probably happens every five minutes." "Good job," Jacky said, looking at the ruler.
Afterwards, when she became a saleslady in the Bagatelle, that flamboyant department store in Faber Street, she earned four dollars and a half a week. Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist.
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