What's the matter with you selling goods for me?"
He was taken aback, but I could see that he was going to accept it
"What do you mean?" he asked, flushing
"I mean what I say. I want you to come with me. You will make
more money than you have ever made before. You're a first-rate
salesman, Loeb, and--well, it will pay you to make the change.
What do you say?"
He contemplated the floor for a minute or two, and then, looking
up awkwardly, he said: "I'll think it over. But you're a smart
fellow, Levinsky. I can tell you that."
We proceeded to discuss details, and I received his answer--a
favorable one--before we left our seats
To celebrate the event I had him dine with me that evening, our
pledges of mutual loyalty being solemnized by a toast which we
drank in the costliest champagne the hotel restaurant could furnish
It was not a year and a half after this episode that Chaikin entered
my employ as designer
CHAPTER VI I SAW other girls with a view to marriage, but I
was "too particular," as my friends, the Nodelmans, would have it.
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