Business-like

Mr. Meadows was a short square man, with a business-like walk, a steady eye, a leathery, unvarying complexion.

“You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,” Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.

“Parlez-vouses or our own men?” demanded the Squire in a business-like tone.

Then there would be a rapid ten-day wedding-journey, followed by a prompt, business-like occupancy of the new apartment on the first of May exactly.