He was lost in wonder over the rhyme which Polly repeated to him, but still more impressed by the four great silver dollars she had to show; for her impatient customer had already called for the verses.
The new customer meanwhile was wondering whether Miss Polly would guess that he had come partly from curiosity, and partly with that other far more daring motive of finding a way to do her a service.
That thing' was a Coddington lens, through which I examined the hair of every customer with a view to identification.
My terror from moment to moment was that some other customer should come in, though a holiday evening was usually a blank in a business sense until the Christian shops shut.
I shut up the shop when my customer departed, indulged in a good wash and a substantial supper.
For in all those years no customer with ringed hair ever came to my shop.
I focussed on it with some difficulty and then saw that it was a group of finger-marks; the prints made by the greasy fingers of my dandy customer when he had leaned on the glass to inspect his teeth.
Baronet, seizing a card-table from below the portrait of Mr. Customer getting drunk, and setting it out a little on the left of the tire.
The night was dark, but the ample cab-lamps threw a gleam over the drab and red lined door that George Beer the driver held back in his hand to let his customer in.
He thought very little of bagmen--Mr. Customer was the man for his money.
On the 7th a newcustomer came--Mademoiselle Flavia, the daughter of Martin Rigal, the banker.
Martin Rigal used his power despotically and permitted no arguments, and speedily quelled rebellion on the part of any new customerwho ventured to object to his arbitrary rules.
But for every saloon which closed its doors it seemed there was a soda fountain set up to fizz and to spout; and the books of Fowler & Givens showed the name of a new customer to replace each vanished old one.
It was represented to him that he could slip back to town and, all the while keeping well under cover, rib up the customer to go, as the trade term has it, and then withdraw again to the Dominion.
It's bad enough to lose my material, and customerinto the bargain.
The customerfor whom it is intended is very particular, and I was anxious to please him.
She will be more careful how she tries again to impose herself upon customer tailors as a good vest maker.
If there was dissent, then his customerneed not come again, that was all.
Now I haven't the heart to cut the leaves off when a customer asks me.
But one day, after he had finished cleaning the window, and the baker was busy in the rear of the store, a customer came in, and Edward ventured to wait on her.
We have a--this microfilm record of a coupon clipped from a portion of one of our advertisements, which indicates by writing of the customer on the coupon that he ordered our catalog No.
This is an imprint made by our cash register indicating that the remittance received from the customer was passed through our register on that date.
The third copy is filed permanently in the office under the name of the respective customer after the order has been shipped.
And we would have so shipped it unless the customer specifically specified that he did not wish to have it attached.
The customer designates whether he wants the rifle only or whether he wants the rifle with the scope by his selection of catalog numbers.
The touters make dashes at the baggage and carry it off, sometimes in different directions, each hoping to secure a customer for his hotel.
Besides this, this untiring author has called at every hairdresser's in the London Directory, to ascertain the number of times per quarter each customer has his hair cut, with the quantity and length denuded.
In the first place, there is not so much formality or affected dignity about them, and they are far better provided with means of rational amusement; and the promptitude with which a customer is served is really surprising.
The customer opened her purse as she thus spoke, and counted out the sum in glittering gold dollars.
The customer turned from the counter, and had nearly gained the door, when she paused, drew out her purse, and emptying the contents of one end into her hand, carefully noted the amount.
I explained to one of my clerks what he must do when the customer came in, and, of course, expected all to be done right.
I wish twenty yards," said the customer taking it for granted that fifty-five cents was the price of the goods.
The customer went away, and paid out all his money in settling a bill with one of my neighbors.
The customer turned away and retired from the store, leaving that dollar still on the conscience of Mr. Levering.
About an hour after going to his store, Mr. Levering saw his customer of the day previous enter, and move along towards the place where he stood behind his counter.
Here is a jury sworn "to a true verdict find" in the case of an ugly looking customer at the bar who is charged with knocking down an old man and stealing his watch.
This fragment the maker had retained, as well as a slip of paper, upon which the customer had written the address of the place to which he wished the stamp sent--The Young Men's Christian Association!
Neither can the customer be charged ordinarily for waiting time, and apart from its malodorous character the business is not desirable from a financial point of view.
He will do it as a matter of course, seeing that I am a sufficiently good customer of his.
The landlord himself bought the saddle and bridle, for a few marks; saying that he could, at any time, find a customer for such matters.
Two or three times a week a customer came in in whom she began to take an interest.
One day the customer came in as usual, laid his nickel on the showcase, and called for his stale loaves.
The customer hurried to the door to look, as any one will.
He'd seen you was a regular customer and he spoke a word or two just to show you he appreciated your custom.
When the customer turned once more she was tying the paper around them.
However, she simply directed him, and was turning away to seek for another customer when he slipped a bright half-crown into her hand.
But it's raining hard, sir,' the man exclaimed, not believing that his customer wanted the clothes for real use.
Soon afterwards, while I sat with Patch on my knees, the other customer left the room.
Now the customer must be waited on, no matter how completely she may be overcome by fatigue or prostrated by lassitude.
The unoccupied saleswoman had been seeking relief from the strain upon her muscles by leaning back against the shelves, but on the entrance of a customer she must be all obsequiousness.
I cannot say that any customer came in to buy it while I was in any shop, but you may be sure that the book would not be on the counter unless it was highly thought of.
They bargain; the customer turns in scorn, and goes; he is called back; the goods are displayed once more, and their merits expatiated upon.
He, on seeing the cart approaching, grinned so as to show his big grinders, for he knew his customer well enough.
Then Heribald laughed, as if he knew his customer now.
His companion, impelled by habit, with the instinct of the vendor who sees a customer in the distance, had arisen to her feet.
All the women there were slaves whom the Boeotian beat when they allowed a customerto leave discontented.
The law's a dangerous customerto get one in its crushes, an' who can tell how we'd be dealt with?
You will be there when I tell you, young man, or you'll have to reckon with another sort of customer than the one you've been dealing with.
Bockstein relieved the embarrassment of the situation by coming in out of breath, with a brave pretense of having been merely consulting a customer in the next room.
That must have been a pleasant surprise for him, and you made a customer for life.
My customerhad made no complaint--he supposed he was getting what the contract called for, and so did I.
Just prior to the call I heard Martin whisper huskily over his shoulder to a rough customer who sat just back of and above him, at Spot's corner of the pit: "Stand by wit' that glim now!
At that moment the dark-lantern rough-customer closed the slide and disappeared.
