"You are a detestable hypocrite and an idiot!" shouted the Party
Manager.
"Thanks to Miss Vanstone," observed the manager, who had heard the prompting.
The manager's professional eye followed her out respectfully -- he looked as if he approved of the exit, from a theatrical point of view.
You can sleep there on Sunday night, if you like; that's just as you please, or you can send your box there on Monday." The
manager nodded: "Good-morning."
Henry mentioned it to his friends in the public room, in the hearing of the
manager. The
manager, naturally zealous in defence of the hotel, was a little hurt at the implied reflection cast on Number Fourteen.
'Excuse my saying so,' said the
manager, leaning over to Nicholas, and sinking his voice, 'but what a capital countenance your friend has got!'
The
Manager, when introducing him to the public, added these words:
I was in the
manager's office, when Mercier, the acting-manager, suddenly came darting in.
And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the
Manager retires, and the curtain rises.
Trent," the
manager declared in his suavest and most professional manner, "that you are acting under a complete misapprehension.
"It must be a strangely managed business," said the
manager, "which allows men to leave it who have served for fifty years, and who are still as good as ever.
Cries were raised of "Rouletabille!--there's Rouletabille!" The arrival of the
manager of the paper was the signal for a great demonstration.