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At school I had surpassed him in our studies, and on the ball field I had proved myself a superior player. I do not wish to brag about what I did, but it is necessary to show why Duncan disliked me. Nor was there much love lost on my side, though I always treated him fairly. The reason for this was plain. As I have stated, his father, Aaron Woodward, was at one tune a fellow-clerk with my father.
He formed a plan, however, of gaining his point, for he was anxious to see and know the actors of Paris, and with a fellow-clerk he set out on foot for the great city. The two young men were without money, but each carried a gun. They shot hares and partridges as they journeyed toward Paris, and sold them to dealers in game, and thus paid their expenses from day to day.
I hear your fellow-clerk in the office. To work! to work! and build to-day the first step that leads to your new fortunes!" He good-humouredly pushed Obenreizer out before him; extinguished the taper, with a last fond glance at his clock which passed harmlessly over the regulator beneath; and closed the oaken door. At three, the office was shut up.
"Who was that chap you were talking with?" asked a fellow-clerk. "Oh, a hayseed who wanted to see the old man. Poor relation, I guess. I headed him off. Stone is always telling us that time is money, so I saved both of 'em for him. He ought to thank me. Wouldn't be surprised if I got the raise I've been asking for." Mr. Prince did not get the raise, nor the thanks. But he was surprised.
He said once to his fellow-clerk in the store, "I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others." His observation had taught him that the great difference in men's positions was not due so much to one having more talents or being more highly gifted than another, but rather to the way in which one cultivated his talent or talents and another neglected his.
Harris stared in astonishment. It had passed his comprehension how the fellow could have the face to show up at the office at all, but for him to have the audacity to address a fellow-clerk, and that fellow-clerk Harris, of all people, seemed fairly to stun that worthy. It took him fully half a minute to recover his speech. Then he stammered out in white heat, "Eh?
It's the silliest stuff I ever heard of. All that's needful is to cable to the manager: Kirkman has the fifteen hundred find Kirkman. He was a fellow-clerk of mine, and a hard case; but to do him justice, I didn't think he was as hard as this. 'And what do you say to that, Alick? asked Flora. 'I say the cablegram shall go to-night! cried Alexander, with energy. 'Answer prepaid, too.
Tom Stanton had listened with considerable surprise, mingled with mortification, to what had passed. It appeared then, that his country cousin, whom he had looked upon as a country boor, was his superior in education, and, as Tom secretly knew, in courage. And now he was going to be his fellow-clerk.
But his evil genius pursued him; and before he reached the first corner, he heard a quick step behind him, and turning, stood face to face with the last person he at that moment wished to meet Quirk, his fellow-clerk. Since the Sabbath which they had spent so disgracefully together, he had shunned Quirk in every way.
Mr Cradell, for instance, who in his early years had been very intimate with John Eames, and who still kept up the old friendship. although, being a domestic man, with a wife and six young children, and living on a small income, he did not go out much among his friends, could have told a very different story; for Mrs Cradell herself had, in days before Cradell had made good his claim upon her, been not unadmired by Cradell's fellow-clerk.
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