Ef Carroll hadn't been takin' that much cream and milk, I'd set there in that barber's-chair ef I'd had a year's beard to shave, an' I'd kept him waitin', and enjoyed it, but, as it was, I did what I did." What Tappan did was to wave back Flynn's lathering-hand, and to say, rather splutteringly, that he would wait, "ef Captain Carroll was in a hurry." But Captain Carroll was in no hurry, it seemed, and, moreover, gave the impression that if he had been about to catch a railroad train to keep an important business engagement, he would not have dreamed of thrusting himself in before the milkman with his milk all delivered.
He, moreover, gave the impression that he considered the milkman a polished gentleman for his handsome offer, and all this without saying so much.

Captain Carroll seated himself, and completed the impression by tendering everybody cigars.

Then the "Tonsorial Parlor" and its patrons waiting for a Sunday-morning shave became a truly genteel function.

Willy Eddy, who was dreamily imaginative, and read the Sunday papers when his Minna gave him a chance and did not chide him for the waste of money, remembered things he had read about the swagger New York clubs.

He smoked away and made-believe he was a clubman, and enjoyed himself artlessly.