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But the aprons, the red shirts, and the grime of working-days were off, and the whole were in holiday rig, as black and smooth and shiny from top to toe as the members of a Congress of Undertakers. Wade, following in the wake of Perry, took his stand facing the rank, and waited to see what he was summoned for. He had not long to wait. To the front stepped Mr.
From her old working-days she had retained in the depths of her memory the names of public balls, of famous restaurants, where she was eager to go now, just as she took pleasure in causing the doors to be thrown open for her at the establishments of the great dressmakers, whose signs only she had known in her earlier days.
In this method, which caused the lady grievous dumps, he long persisted, hardly touching her once a month, and observing her closely, lest another should give her to know working-days, as he had taught her holidays.
For six full working-days Ford had been immersed to the eyes in the intricacies of his railway problem, acquiring in Chicago a valiseful of documentary data that demanded to be classified and thoroughly digested before he reached New York and the battle-field actual.
And then and there he registered a mental vow to share their every task and occupation. So he applied himself to supervising and administering. He reduced the amount of the barstchina , he decreased the number of working-days for the owner, and he augmented the sum of the peasants' leisure-time.
Then she insisted on Mary Potter bringing out her sewing, and giving her something more to do; it was one of her working-days, she said; she had spent rather an idle winter; and moreover, she was in such spirits at Gilbert's good fortune, that she couldn't be satisfied without doing something for him, and to sew up the seams of his new breeches was the very thing!
I have had some rough times lately, and have been forced to pick up what I can get in the way of wearing, but I must find a suit better fit for working-days when I reach home." "One of hereabouts?" she inquired. "Not quite that further up the country." "I thought so. And so be I; and by your tongue you come from my neighborhood." "But you would hardly have heard of me," he said quickly.
"Mr Armstrong has enough of all of us on working-days," said Rosalind rather cruelly, "to forego a chance of being rid of us on a holiday." "Quite so," said the tutor, trying to enjoy the situation; "when the mice are away the cat will play on the piano."
On one occasion lately, a passenger-steamer, 160 feet long, 16 feet broad, and capable of accommodating 600 passengers with ease, was made ready for receiving her machinery in twelve working-days. At this rate, one would be inclined to fear that business must necessarily soon come to a dead stop: but there is not the slightest appearance of such result, nor is it even apprehended.
I have had some rough times lately, and have been forced to pick up what I can get in the way of wearing, but I must find a suit better fit for working-days when I reach home. 'One of hereabouts? she inquired. 'Not quite that further up the country. 'I thought so. And so be I; and by your tongue you come from my neighbourhood. 'But you would hardly have heard of me, he said quickly.
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