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"You lie," she cried, half springing from her chair. "Frank has never " "Oh yes, Frank has," answered Sam, turning as though to call a waiter; "I will have him here in ten minutes if you wish to be shown." Picking up a fork the woman began nervously picking holes in the table cloth and a tear appeared upon her cheek.
I ordered a bottle of wine, and asked if she would take any; she said yes, and added, if I liked, she would oblige me. "I haven't time," I said; and I gave the poor wretch the change I received from the waiter. She was full of gratitude, and would have embraced me if I had allowed her. "Do you like being at Amsterdam better than Venice?" I asked.
As the poetical author of the ode to the "Plump Head Waiter at The Cock," has philosophically sung, and, as many a weather-beaten sufferer has cruelly proven,
He knew Thackeray as he knew Curtis and Lowell, and was once dining with him in a London chop-house, when Thackeray said: "Have you read the last number of The Newcombs? if not, I will read it to you." Accordingly he gave the waiter a shilling to obtain the document, and read it aloud to Cranch and a friend who was with him.
There are always difficulties between unequals. But try this, some day, and see what a real gratitude you will get from the waiter. It isn't infallible, but the chances are he will feel that you have treated him like a man, and will do or say something to show his feeling: he will give a twitch to your under-coat when he has helped you on with your top-coat, which will almost pull you over.
That charming old "Hotel Dessein," with its court, its gardens, its lordly kitchen, its princely waiter a gentleman of the old school, who has welcomed the finest company in Europe have long been known to me. I have read complaints in The Times, more than once, I think, that the Dessein bills are dear. A bottle of soda-water certainly costs well, never mind how much. And I WAS a sinner.
I've been at the parade at Wurzburg." "At Wurzburg! Ah, how little the world is, or how large Wurzburg is! We were there nearly a week, and we pervaded the place. But there was a great crowd for you to hide in from us. What had I better take?" A waiter had come up, and was standing at March's elbow. "I suppose I mustn't sit here without ordering something?"
He was the only person having déjeuner on the "terrace," as he named it to the obsequious waiter who always attended him. It is beside the question to remark that one is obliged to reverse the English when directing a cocher to the Chatham.
The coffee-room at the "George" is a longish, narrowish, dullish chamber, with a row of windows that look out upon the yard, but upon this afternoon they looked at nothing in particular; and here Barnabas found a waiter, a lonely wight who struck him as being very like the room itself, in that he, also, was long, and narrow, and dull, and looked out upon the yard at nothing in particular; and, as he gazed, he sighed, and tapped thoughtfully at his chin with a salt-spoon.
My ignorance of how to wait upon them was so apparent that they scolded me in such a severe manner that I became frightened and left their table, leaving them sitting there without food. As a result of this I was reduced from the position of waiter to that of a dish-carrier. But I determined to learn the business of waiting, and did so within a few weeks, and was restored to my former position.
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