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Winkle's room, without announcing me. As the little old gentleman uttered this command, he slipped five shillings into the waiter's hand, and looked steadily at him. 'Really, sir, said the waiter, 'I don't know, sir, whether 'Ah! you'll do it, I see, said the little old gentleman. 'You had better do it at once. It will save time.
"How like a Frenchman," he exclaimed, "to take no account of seasons! Never mind, Marquis, you shall give your order and I will sketch the waiter's face. By the by, if you're in earnest about this expedition to-night, put your revolver into your pocket." "But we're going with an ex-detective," Sogrange replied. "One never knows," Peter said carelessly.
Oh; here he is. Mr Dimmock, this is my dear father. He has succeeded with the steak. Theodore Racksole found himself confronted by a very young man, with deep black eyes, and a fresh, boyish expression. They began to talk. Jules approached with the steak. Racksole tried to catch the waiter's eye, but could not. The dinner proceeded.
Tudor will be down in ten minutes, was the waiter's false reply; for up to that moment poor Alaric had not yet succeeded in lifting his throbbing head from his pillow.
Would his taste tell him the melancholy truth? No: it seemed to matter nothing to him what he was drinking or what he was smoking. Now he looked angry, and now he looked puzzled; and now he took a long letter from his pocket, and read it in places, and marked the places with a pencil. "Up to some mischief," was the waiter's interpretation of these signs.
My opponent, to whom I can give twenty, ran out when I was sixty-seven, and I put aside my cue pettishly. That in itself was bad form, but what would they have thought had they known that a waiter's impertinence caused it! I grew angrier with William as the night wore on, and next day I punished him by giving my orders through another waiter.
When she found that Gaga not only did not resent this, but was pleased and thrilled by her domination, Sally grew triumphant. She chose the sweet for them both, sweeping her eye down the prices and listening to the waiter's translation of each title. She sipped her wine with a royal air of connoisseurship.
Now there are many occupations which involve prolonged standing and so induce the condition of flat foot: waiters, hall-porters, hawkers, policemen, shop-walkers, salesmen, and station officials are examples. But the waiter's gait is characteristic a quick, shuffling walk which enables him to carry liquids without spilling them.
To connect the head waiter's panic at my departure with the episode in my room, to declare that the floor clerks had been called from their posts for a set purpose, and the halls deliberately cleared for the thief, were flights of fancy that were beyond me. The more fool I!
Drelmer, "a creature in a waiter's jacket having emotions of that sort!" "Our excellent country," said Mr. Milbrey, "is perhaps not yet what it will be; there is undeniably a most distressing rawness where we might expect finish.
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