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Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father's mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents.
On leaving school at sixteen, Benjamin, after, a few months with a firm of accountants at Exeter, was bound apprentice to his father for seven years, and it was then that his troubles began. 'I hated day-books, ledgers, bill-books, and cashbooks, he tells us.
"Music music," said Mr Bang, "I delight in good music, but" He was cut short by the whole bunch, the clerks and their master, closing their ledgers, and journals, and day books, and cashbooks with a bang, while one hooked up a fiddle, another a clarionet, another a flute, &c, while Mr S offered, with a smile, his own clarionet to Massa Aaron, and holding out at the same time, with the true good breeding of a Frenchman, a span new reed.
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