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Half an hour afterwards, Dufour and a bank-clerk arrived at Mademoiselle de la Tour's. They found Bertrand and Marie together, and both in a state of high nervous excitement.
But Charlie, the bank-clerk, on twenty-five shillings a week, he who had never been out of sight of a London omnibus, knew it all. It was no consolation to me that once in his lives he had been forced to die for his gains. I also must have died scores of times, but behind me, because I could have used my knowledge, the doors were shut. "And then?" I said, trying to put away the devil of envy.
Be that as it may, Morrow, the dapper young bank-clerk, found in the Pennold household a grizzled, middle-aged man, with shifty, suspicious eyes and a moist hand-clasp; behind him appeared a shrewish, thin-haired wife who eyed the intruder from the first with ill-concealed animosity.
"The rents are low and the estate is encumbered," he resumed. "On the whole, I don't think you would consider it good security." "Thank you for the hint. Osborn looked as if he had got a jar." "I think he had. He bought some shares that have gone down sharply, and since he's a bank-clerk I expect the loss is a serious thing for him." Hallam nodded carelessly. "No doubt!
Immediately after his death there was printed a book which purported to be his biography. It was the work of a bank-clerk who had been discharged by Girard. This man had been close enough to his employer to lend plausibility to much that he had to say, and as the author called himself Girard's private secretary, people with prejudices plus pointed to the printed page as authority.
As for Browning, the bank-clerk, he was vexed that his son should show so little caution as to load himself up with an invalid wife, and he cut off the allowance, declaring that if a man was old enough to marry, he was also old enough to care for himself.
Her father went to live in the neighbourhood of the Pantheon, in an apartment which he had rented for the sale of his historical atlas. He died in a few months afterward of an apoplectic stroke. His daughter, I was told, retired to Caen to live with some aged relative. It was there that, later on, she married a bank-clerk, the same Noel Alexandre who became so rich and died so poor.
Morrison had been for years a bank-clerk in Birmingham before his appointment to the post he now held. A group of Midland artists, whose work had become famous, and costly in proportion, had evidently been his friends at one time or perhaps merely his debtors. They were at any rate well represented on the wall of this small Westmoreland house in which he spent his holidays. Presently Mr.
Sufficient that we should find simple labels, and not further exploit them. I am, I confess to you, in private life, a bank-clerk...." "And should, according to your own view, have a wife, three children, and a vegetable garden in a suburb," said Appleplex. "Such is precisely the case," returned Eeldrop, "but I had not thought it necessary to mention this biographical detail.
Be a bank-clerk, or a journeyman printer, but not a Congressman. Here you will find nothing but wasted effort and clumsy intrigue." "Do you think it a pity for me to learn that?" asked Madeleine when his long essay was ended. "No!" replied Gore, hesitating; "not if you do learn it. But many people never get so far, or only when too late.
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