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He had forgotten the name of his boy's apprentice, and his forgetfulness was on his mind. The strain was a bit too much for us when it came to that question. We laughed rather hysterically. Then we pulled ourselves together, but we had not disturbed him. He spoke no more save for two or three detached words proper names I think. But he breathed long breaths peacefully.
The next day passed uneventfully enough, though the unfortunate Leander's apprehensions increased with every hour. As before, he closed early, got his apprentice safely off the premises, and sat down to wait in his saloon. To his horror, Aphrodite's first words, after awaking, expressed her intention of repeating the search for homage and beauty, which had been so unsuccessful the night before!
His schooling was only that which he could obtain during three or four months in winter; for at other seasons of the year he labored in the field with his father and brothers; and when he went to be an apprentice for five years in the printing-office, he was paid a very slender pittance, the greater part of which he gave to his father, whose income was probably next to nothing.
"And what are we to do about our day's work, Mouche and I?" "What is your day worth?" "For the pair of us, my apprentice and me? Five francs," said the old man, looking Blondet in the eye with a hesitation which betrayed an enormous overcharge. The journalist took ten francs from his pocket, saying, "There's ten, and I'll give you ten more for the otter."
Is that the way to look at the great question of humanity? Ah! if I were only a deputy in the Chambers, I would teach you the philosophy of all that rubbish!" "I thought you said the other day that you would not have any deputies at all," observed the apprentice, playing with his hammer. "Such as these are no!
The apprentice of the church was irritated at the impudence with which these dressed up popinjays, the apprentices of war, sauntered about the church. Many mornings he would go to the Muzarabé Chapel, following attentively the ancient ritual, intoned by the priests especially devoted to it. On the walls were represented in brilliant colours scenes from the conquest of Oran by the great Cisneros.
Unluckily, I did not excel as a cabinet-maker, though I managed to finish tolerable boxes; but my mother had two made by the more skilful hands of Ludo, which were provided with locks and hinges, so neatly finished, veneered, and polished that many a trained cabinet-maker's apprentice could have done no better.
Their adversary, seeing them approach, called his apprentice, who worked at the other end of the ground, to his assistance, armed him with a mattock, while he himself wielded a hoe, bolted his door on the inside, and, flanked with his man and mastiff, waited the attack without flinching.
I am going to put the head on to the Berenice; my apprentice must long since have completed his preparations; but the rascal came into the world with two left-hands, and as he squints with one eye everything that is straight looks crooked to him, and according to the law of optics the oblique looks straight.
It also showed how James Stock, his faithful apprentice, by his honest and upright behavior, so gained the love and respect of his late master's creditors, that they set him up in business, though he was not worth a shilling of his own such is the power of a good character! And when we last parted from him he had just got possession of his master's shop.
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