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Then the boy sat at the machine with his hands folded in his lap, gazing at the empty copy-holder out of dead eyes.
"Not with a woman to order me about though, for it is not often that the month has thirty days in it then." Feeling wounded in her womanly dignity, Eve gave Cerizet a withering look and went upstairs again. At dinner-time she spoke to David. "Are you sure, dear, of that little rogue Cerizet?" "Cerizet!" said David. "Why, he was my youngster; I trained him, I took him on as my copy-holder.
We ascended to the laboratory, where Polton was already busy inspecting the massively built copying camera which with the long, steel guides on which the easel or copy-holder travelled took up the whole length of the room on the side opposite to that occupied by the chemical bench. As I was to be inducted into the photographic art, I looked at it with more attention than I had ever done before.
Cerizet came from the great Foundling Hospital in Paris. He had been apprenticed to the MM. Didot, and between the ages of fourteen and seventeen he was David Sechard's fanatical worshiper. David put him under one of the cleverest workmen, and took him for his copy-holder, his page.
The number of teams, the fines, the reliefs, the services that a lord could claim, at first mere matter of oral tradition, came to be entered on the court-roll of the manor, a copy of which became the title-deed of the villein. It was to this that he owed the name of "copy-holder" which at a later time superseded his older title.
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