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He was obliged to be present at the meeting, which had probably already begun. The matter in question was the Eysvogel business, and if Els would remain he could tell her the result. Then he left them. Eva, deadly pale, leaned back with closed eyes in the clerk's high chair.
We appreciate that this may not be the expression of an irrestrainable vanity, or obsessing greed, realising that very probably his professional insight into human character informs him that the subject of the sales of books is the range of the book clerk's mind. In a full-blooded, sporting spirit Mr. Smith asked us if his new book was "selling faster than John Fox's."
Delancey, I don't believe, will keep it to himself, and you may as well know it from me as him." "Never hope for him to keep anything secret that could hurt a body; I never knew him to screen a clerk's faults yet. He is of the opinion that to make the matter public, is the best way to ensure better luck next time.
When Miss Jennings came in both ladies greeted her warmly. There was a hectic glow in her cheeks, and she coughed almost constantly. Mrs. Marvin left the two girls together at an early hour. She had kept her promise and been remarkably cheerful. "Now, Faith, to business," said Miss Jennings, as soon as they were alone. "I want to tell you why you must not report that clerk's theft to-morrow."
All his faculties seemed concentrated in service and admiration for those above him. Scarcely would Madariaga open his lips before the German's head began nodding in agreement, anticipating his words. If he said anything funny, his clerk's laugh would break forth in scandalous roars. With Desnoyers he appeared more taciturn, working without stopping for hours at a time.
A heavily built man, with red moustache, leaned against the clerk's desk, his face toward them. "Do you know that man?" she asked quickly. "He followed me all the time I was shopping. I I believe he is the same one who jostled me in the crowd last night." Keith leaned past her to get a better view, but the fellow turned, and slouched away.
The minister who calls himself a teacher of God's word, thinks that it is God's word that he preaches when he strains his lungs to fill his church. The question is this, Caroline; would you have loved the same man had he come to you with a woodman's axe in his hand or a clerk's quill behind his ear? I guess not." "As to the woodman's axe, Wally, it is very well in theory; but "
A waiter attended me, and I suppose I gave my orders; for presently I found myself, with a sudden return of consciousness, beginning dinner. On the white cloth at my elbow lay the letter, addressed in a clerk's hand, and bearing an English stamp and the Edinburgh postmark. Alexander Loudon, on the 17th ult.
One of the belligerent parties of that town, it seems, had broken into the clerk's office, stolen the records, and buried them somewhere in the ground. The fellow, therefore, had to return, and submit to a judgment against him. Still, however, he clung to his case, and obtained a review of it, in expectation that the records would be found before the next court.
During this time Patrick Henry served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and in this capacity, appointed a Sheriff to serve the County of Fairfax. One of the most interesting documents in view at the Fairfax County Clerk's Office is the original of this command signed by P. Henry.
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