Book Excerpt: er name in print, and then the papers always said as how she was charming and graceful and beautiful, so I suppose the family had made up its mind to get used to her.One evening in she comes to the Savoy. My wife put me up to getting that job, and a good job it is, mind you, when you know your way about. I'd never have had the cheek to try for it, if it hadn't been for the missis. She's a clever one--she is. I did a good day's work when I married her."You shave off that moustache of yours--it ain't an ornament ...
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Book Excerpt: er name in print, and then the papers always said as how she was charming and graceful and beautiful, so I suppose the family had made up its mind to get used to her.One evening in she comes to the Savoy. My wife put me up to getting that job, and a good job it is, mind you, when you know your way about. I'd never have had the cheek to try for it, if it hadn't been for the missis. She's a clever one--she is. I did a good day's work when I married her."You shave off that moustache of yours--it ain't an ornament," she says to me, "and chance it. Don't get attempting the lingo. Keep to the broken English, and put in a shrug or two. You can manage that all right."I followed her tip. Of course the manager saw through me, but I got in a "Oui, monsieur" now and again, and they, being short handed at the time, could not afford to be strict, I suppose. Anyhow I got took on, and there I stopped for the whole season, and that was the making of me.Well, as I was saying, in she comes to theRead More
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Good+ Color Illustrations; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 182 pages; 1901 Dodd Mead. 1st edition. HC in original green, coarsely woven cloth. Front board ruling and tiling in white 75% intact with some rubbing and loss at edges. Spine titling completely lost. Snug and soundly bound with only minimal rubbing to cloth at corners. Cloth a little sunned/faded at spine. 5 color illustrations/plates on glossy stock. 1st edition in book form. Solid copy but with some loss to stamped titling, as described. Thus Good only,