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Only give me leave to do as I think fit about it." Lucy rose from her stool to seat herself on her father's knee, and kissed him with that last request. "Are you sure you won't do mischief, now?" he said, looking at her with delight. "Yes, papa, quite sure. I'm very wise; I've got all your business talents. Didn't you admire my accompt-book, now, when I showed it you?"
He saw the fine thin lips, like a woman's, primmed in satisfaction. He heard words of compliment "none so swift and certain as you" "in truth, a master-hand" "I know not where to look for your like." Delicious speeches seemed to soothe his ear. And gold, too, bags of it, the tale of which would never appear in any accompt-book. Nay, his fancy soared higher.
A Turkish merchant never keeps more than one accompt-book; into this he copies from a pocket-book his weekly sales and purchases. They have not that extensive correspondence which European merchants are obliged to keep up; and they write much less, though perhaps more to the purpose, than the latter.
But as he persisted in the same sentiments, he suffered. It is remarkable, that, almost immediately after his execution, Cassian, who, was the notary to the same legion, refused to serve any longer, by publicly throwing his pen and accompt-book upon the ground, and declaring, at the same time, that the sentence of Marcellus was unjust.
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