Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 6,432 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 6,432 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works.

Englishman. [Paying] Thanks. [To his wife, in an Oxford voice] Sugar?

ENGLISHWOMAN. [In a Cambridge voice] One.

American traveller. [With field-glasses and a pocket camera from another table] Waiter, I’d like to have you get my eggs.  I’ve been sitting here quite a while.

Waiter.  Yes, sare.

German traveller.  ‘Kellner, bezahlen’! [His voice is, like his moustache, stiff and brushed up at the ends.  His figure also is stiff and his hair a little grey; clearly once, if not now, a colonel.]

Waiter.  ‘Komm’ gleich’!

     [The baby on the bundle wails.  The mother takes it up to soothe
     it.  A young, red-cheeked Dutchman at the fourth table stops
     eating and laughs.]

American.  My eggs!  Get a wiggle on you!

Waiter.  Yes, sare. [He rapidly recedes.]

     [A little man in a soft hat is seen to the right of tables.  He
     stands a moment looking after the hurrying waiter, then seats
     himself at the fifth table.]

Englishman. [Looking at his watch] Ten minutes more.

ENGLISHWOMAN.  Bother!

American. [Addressing them] ’Pears as if they’d a prejudice against eggs here, anyway.

     [The English look at him, but do not speak. ]

German. [In creditable English] In these places man can get nothing.

     [The waiter comes flying back with a compote for the Dutch
     youth, who pays.]

German.  ‘Kellner, bezahlen’!

Waiter.  ‘Eine Krone sechzig’.

     [The German pays.]

American. [Rising, and taking out his watch—­blandly] See here.  If I don’t get my eggs before this watch ticks twenty, there’ll be another waiter in heaven.

Waiter. [Flying] ‘Komm’ gleich’!

American. [Seeking sympathy] I’m gettin’ kind of mad!

     [The Englishman halves his newspaper and hands the advertisement
     half to his wife.  The baby wails.  The mother rocks it.]

[The Dutch youth stops eating and laughs.  The German lights a cigarette.  The little man sits motionless, nursing his hat.  The waiter comes flying back with the eggs and places them before the American.]

American. [Putting away his watch] Good!  I don’t like trouble.  How much?

     [He pays and eats.  The waiter stands a moment at the edge of
     the platform and passes his hand across his brow.  The little
     man eyes him and speaks gently.]

Little man.  Herr Ober!

     [The waiter turns.]

Might I have a glass of beer?

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