Quotes About Shopgirls

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

No one accused Frederick James Furnivall of averageness, and his career highlights the ups and downs of editorial scholarship. As eccentric as he was energetic, a Christian socialist turned agnostic, Furnivall gained a reputation for hot pink neckties, sculling on the Thames with shopgirls, and hours toiling over manuscripts in the British Museum.