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Arlen was an accountant for one of the big firms. He had a slim orderly face. "Sometimes I think cats are smarter than people," Arlen said, "but I love to hear the birds. They sing whenever they damn please." He sighed, leaned back on his couch, and crossed his legs. An embossed boot swung prominently in front of him, oddly flamboyant. "Yeah, Verdi's my buddy," Oliver said. "He likes you, too."
"Dear me!" exclaimed the accountant, while he and Harry turned round with a start. "It cannot surely be possible that they have gone in already." A loud howl followed the remark, and the whole pack fled over the plain like snow-drift, and disappeared. "Ah, that's a pity! something must have scared them to make them take wing like that.
"Does he know everysing?" asked the child. "N-no, not exactly; but he knows many things oh, ever so many things," answered the cautious wife and mother. The accountant had barely crossed his humble threshold and sat down, when Robin clambered on his knee and put the puzzling question. "Fasser, what is lightenin'?"
West," said the former, "it strikes us as very odd that you should have that idea? We estimate that under our system one accountant serves where dozens were needed in your day." "But," said I, "the nation has now a separate account with or for every man, woman, and child in the country." "Of course," replied the superintendent, "but did it not have the same in your day?
One asks one's self how the people live who go into these trades, what fastidious Providence can, for example, send clients to a photographer lodged on a fifth floor in a nondescript region, well beyond the Rue Saint-Ferdinand, or books to keep to the accountant below.
You said just now that perhaps some day you might make me accountant in your shop. That was kind of you, and I might be a good accountant; but, of course, all that is for the future. I shouldn't mind that I mean, not particularly.
And in order that there may be the fitting account and regularity in all things, all proceedings shall be conducted equitably and with great precision in the matters ordered. It is my will and command that there shall be in the said vessels, and sail with them, an inspector and an accountant, to keep account and system in everything.
"Her father," lady Feng replied, "is called Chin Ts'ai. He and his wife are in Nanking; they have to look after our houses there, so they can't pay frequent visits to the capital. Her brother is the Wen-hsiang, who acts at present as our senior's accountant; but her sister-in-law too is employed in our worthy ancestor's yonder as head washerwoman."
Or, if not, I flatter myself I'm accountant enough to be an agent in my own country. 'Anything to get away from here, said Albinia, with a shade of asperity, provoked by the spirit of enterprise in his voice. 'After all, it is a bit of a place, said Ulick; 'and the office parlour is not just a paradise!
By dint of severe blowing, he soon succeeded; and heaping on a quantity of small twigs, the fitful flame sprang up into a steady blaze. He then threw several heavy logs on the fire, and in a very short space of time restored it almost to its original vigour. "What an abominable row you are kicking up!" growled the accountant; "why, you would waken the seven sleepers.
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