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Kendrew started, and showed the first tokens of interest in the proceedings which had escaped him yet. Mr. Delamayn looked at him for a moment, and went on. "The case," he resumed, "as originally stated by you, and taken down in writing by our head-clerk." Mr. Vanborough's temper began to show itself again. "What have we got to do with that now?" he asked.
"Nature above the normal capacity," observed the head-clerk, who was standing at the counter close by. "It always comes out when it's there." The head-clerk a tall man of fifty, in spectacles, with a dark beard, and a pencil behind his ear usually expressed his ideas vaguely in roundabout hints, while his sly smile betrayed that he attached particular significance to his words.
She also asked him whether there was anything fresh at the office, and he replied merrily: "Your friend, Ramon, who comes and dines here every Sunday, is going to leave us, little one. There is a new second head-clerk." She looked at her father, and with a precocious child's pity, she said: "Another man has been put over your head again."
"What a romance! Such things are nowhere to be heard of but in the Rue des Lombards." "But do not take it into your head that a jealous brother murdered the seducer. The young man died in the most commonplace way of a pleurisy caught as he came out of the theatre. A head-clerk and penniless, the man entrapped the daughter in order to marry into the business A judgment from heaven, I call it!"
'Ah, here he's coming! he added with a look at the window; 'speak of the devil. Nikolai Eremyitch came into the counting-house. His face was shining with satisfaction, but he was rather taken aback at seeing Pavel Andreitch. 'Good day to you, Nikolai Eremyitch, said Pavel in a significant tone, advancing deliberately to meet him. The head-clerk made no reply.
One day, as Arthur was about leaving the store for dinner, Wilkins called him back, and gave him some money to deposit in the bank, which he had to pass on his way to the restaurant. "We are so busy to-day," remarked the head-clerk, as he gave it to him, "it is just now impossible for me to leave before the bank closes, and you can do this as well as myself."
"But how can I, in disgrace with my father, and divested of all control over his affairs, prevent this danger by my mere presence in London?" "That presence alone will do much. Your claim to interfere is a part of your birthright, and it is inalienable. You will have the countenance, doubtless, of your father's head-clerk, and confidential friends and partners.
That husband of mine, a second clerk in the War Office, is bent on being a head-clerk and officer of the Legion of Honor; can I help his being ambitious? Now for the very reason that made him leave us our liberty nearly four years ago, do you remember, you bad boy? he now abandons me to Monsieur Hulot.
I gathered, at any rate, that he had produced very little effect by what he had said; and that Armadale had already carried out his absurd intention of consulting the head-clerk in the office of his London lawyers. "Having got as far as this, Midwinter put the question which I felt must come sooner or later.
Quirk quietly lighted a cigar, and, seating himself, turned good-naturedly to Wilkins, remarking: "I suppose you know, old boy, that I got my discharge from these premises t'other day." "Indeed!" returned the head-clerk, coldly, striking a match to light a cigar for himself.
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