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You must stay to lunch. This is your old club and you must stay to lunch." "But you've begun your lunch," Bishop protested. "I've not. The fact is, I was half expecting you to look in again. The hall-porter told me...." And Mr. Prohack actually patted Mr. Bishop on the shoulder a trick he had. "Come now, don't tell me you've got another lunch appointment. It's twenty-five to two."
'How do, Tom? said the stranger, grasping the hand of the head hall-porter, and nodding to the head night-porter. His voice showed that he was an American, and his demeanour that he was one of those experienced, wealthy, and kindly travellers who know the Christian names of all the hall-porters in the world, and have the trick of securing their intimacy and fealty.
The result of these was to increase rather than to allay my fears. The man was a stranger to the hall-porter, and he was not one of the taximen who habitually stood upon the neighboring rank; no one seemed to have noticed the number of the cab. And now my mind began to play with strange doubts and fears.
Solely owing to the impression which his young face made on the powerful and aged hall-porter, George obtained a bedroom. It was small, and at the top of the house; but it was cheap, it solved the even more tiresome and uncomfortable problem of lodging; and further it was a bedroom at Pickering's, and George could say that he lived at his club an imposing social advantage.
She flew to his room, hoping he had not yet gone out. On the table she found a note addressed to herself. She tore it open, read it then went back into the sitting-room, and pealed the bell. "Send my maid to me at once, and the hall-porter." They arrived together. Helen had just written a long telegram to her housekeeper. She spoke to the hall-porter first. "Send off this telegram, please.
They thanked him profusely, touched by his native charm, and they gave him five shillings. They sat down and looked at each other. "I think it is lovely to be at home," said Marie. "There's a comfort about one's own place," Osborn answered, "that you don't get anywhere else." The hall-porter had even wound up the clocks, which Mrs.
H.B. is, perhaps, unaware that the Saint in question owed his name, as when any visitor called to ask if he were at home, the Hall-porter of the period invariably answered, "Yes, Saint's within." Dr.
"It strikes as well," she said to him eagerly. "You can know what time it is in the dark. Look. If you press here do you see?" "Yes. Give it to me you've to press here." He knew all about it. They had lost count of the time; they had to be going. Wolfgang walked to the station between his parents. When they passed the house where Lämke was hall-porter, Frida was standing at the door.
Then he addressed the hall-porter. "By-the-bye, Charles," he inquired, "if you ask a non-member to dinner, you have to dine in the strangers' room, I suppose?" "Certainly, sir," the man replied. "It is just at the back of the general dining-room." "I suppose an ordinary member couldn't dine in there alone?" "It is not customary, sir." Surgeon-Major Thomson made his way to the telephone booth.
And it had bell-boys, onyxine vestibules, and hot and cold water in nearly every room. It also had a fat black hall-porter in a conductor's uniform, and this functionary informed Mrs. Heth that Mr. Kerr was momentarily detained at the bank, but had telephoned orders that any callers he might have were to be shown right up. The Heth ladies were shown right up.
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