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Updated: June 15, 2025
There was a man in the shop, however, of the name of Howard. He was the principal shopwalker, and Mr. Martin had a great respect for him. Without mentioning names, he put the case before him as he himself expressed it in a nutshell.
She wonders would they change it, if she went back and asked to see the shopwalker? Her friend, who wants her lunch, thinks not. "That is what I hate about shopping," she says. "One never has time to really THINK." She says she shan't go to that shop again. We laugh at her, but are we so very much better?
Well, I wanted to go, and wanted to go; and at last I didn't, and I was thankful afterwards. Now Nancy's man is a shopwalker somewhere. He's got no money, but he's good-looking, you know, and girls think a lot of that when they're young; and also he's one of those men who give a girl the idea that he can have twenty others if he wants them. That's what upsets a girl.
Does the Captain V.C. of Infantry, adored and trusted by his men, from whose ranks he rose by reason of latent qualities of initiative command and inspiration, contentedly return to the selling of women's stockings in his old drapery establishment, to the vulgar tyranny of the oily shopwalker, to the humiliating restrictions and conditions of the salesman's life? Return he must perhaps.
A stout woman of lady-like appearance had been arrested on a charge of attempted pocket-picking. The policeman and the shopwalker smiled. It was so easy to be the wife of a well-known philanthropist, and in these days all the best pickpockets had their carriages waiting outside. 'I know this lady by sight, said Lily. 'She visited the common-rooms last year to see the arrangements, with Mr.
'Sorry, miss. All sold out, repeated the second shopwalker. 'I shall report this to Mr. Hugo. Do you know who I am? I'm And the second shopwalker also turned his back. Could these things be happening at Hugo's, at Hugo's, so famous for the courtesy, the long patience, the indestructible politeness of its well-paid employés?
"Here," she said to the smiling shopwalker, "I want to know by whom this cloak was sold, and to what person." The man examined the cloak, and noted a private mark on it, which evidently afforded him some information not obtainable by the general public, for he guided Lucian and his companion to a counter behind which stood a brisk woman with sharp eyes.
Darnby Frere, who was a student of Henry James's works, and therefore constantly made elaborate guesses on matters that did not concern him, and then forgot them because unlike Mr. James's guesses they were always wrong, gave the newcomer credit for being perhaps a shopwalker, or perhaps a South-Eastern and Chatham ticket-collector, but surely a chapel-goer.
The shopkeeper, leaning across the counter, is all smiles and affability, he might put up his shutters were he otherwise. The commercial gent, no doubt, thinks the ponderous shopwalker an ass, but refrains from telling him so. Hasty tempers are banished from the City. Can we not see that it is just as much to our interest to banish them from Tooting and Hampstead?
Miss Summers could not appreciate the effect of her words, because she had gone back again to the subject of Nancy and her married shopwalker. "You ought to have seen that child's work to-day!" "Perhaps she's going to have a baby?" suggested Sally. It gave Miss Summers a great shock. "Oh! D'you think so?" she exclaimed, her eyes wide open with horror. "Oh, no!"
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