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Updated: June 10, 2025
Our first appointment was clerking in the medical wards.
The fact that the cousin in question had never amounted to much and was now clerking in a shoe store in Norfolk was not held against the school. So far the boy had liked what he had seen of Brimfield well enough.
"I know where there's a silver lode." "Ah!" said Stormont, "that's interesting! But it's an expensive business to prove and develop a mineral claim, and you couldn't do much alone. I expect you know this, since you stop here clerking for a few dollars a week. You want help." "The man who looks for that ore will want my help," Drummond rejoined.
He was sick of clerking. What did he want to do? I asked him. He said he was going in for engineering. I smiled at this, and he rounded on me. 'Oh I don't mean your engineering, he says. 'I mean something that's worth while. Very sneering he was. "Well, do you know what he did? He got fifty pounds out of my mother to start with and disappeared. That's all. Simply vanished without a word.
"WORKING! Down to MCGUIRE'S!" Keith plainly did not yet understand. "Sure! An' he's got a real good position, too." Susan spoke jauntily, enthusiastically. "But the McGuires never buy pictures," frowned Keith, "or want " He stopped short. Face, voice, and manner underwent a complete change. "Susan, you don't mean that dad is CLERKING down there behind that grocery counter!"
That the young Englishman's nature was hot and tempestuous, with depths that even he had not sounded, and her ideal knight's more effective mien but the expression of a possibly meager and somewhat puritanical nature; that Dwight's heart was a well-trained organ which would never commit an indiscretion, and that young Gathbroke would have sold the world for her if she had been a flower girl, or the downfall of her fortunes had sent her clerking, she was far too inexperienced to guess; and it is doubtful if the knowledge would have affected her had she possessed it.
"Well," said Joe, mournfully, "thar's Widder Higsby and darter; the four Stubbs gals; in course Polly Doble will be on hand with that feller that's clerking over at the Head for Jones, and Jones's wife. Then thar's French Pete, and Whisky Ben, and that chap that shot Archer, I disremember his name, and the barber what's that little mulatto's name that 'ar Kanaka?
I have a shrewd suspicion that my chief, Mr. Foster, used his good offices on my behalf with the shipping company's manager. Three months went slowly by. And then one morning a laconic note reached me from the shipping-office. 'Could you do a bit of clerking in a purser's office? If so, please see me to-day.
Without that patient and painful schooling, I shouldn't have got where I now am; probably I'd still be blacking boots, or sheet-writing for some bookmaker, or clerking it for some broker. Before I got to my rooms, the night air and my habit of the "sober second thought" had cooled me back to rationality. "I want her, I need her," I was saying to myself.
But that was only another of her aristocratic, stuck-up ways, said they. She was "a lovely young lady," as all admitted on her first timid appearance, and the three women who sat at table with her were eager to take her into close fellowship and confidence, and the two young men, clerking in the new stores, no doubt, were as eager.
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