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His head-clerk replied that in the absence of M. Metivier he could not take it upon himself to stay proceedings, for his employer had made it a rule to let the law take its course. Eve wrote again, offering this time to renew the bills and pay all the costs hitherto incurred. To this the clerk consented, provided that Sechard senior guaranteed payment.
His head-clerk, almost as exhausted, followed him into his room. "I forgot to tell you, sir," he announced, "that there s a man outside Mr. Shepherd was his name, I believe said he had a small investment to make which you promised to look after personally. He would insist on seeing you said he was a waiter at a restaurant which you visited sometimes." "That's all right," Laverick declared.
To recover the value of their business, it was necessary to find a man who had more integrity than ambition, more plain good sense than ability. Ragon proposed the affair to his head-clerk. Birotteau, now master at twenty years of age of a thousand francs a year from the public Funds, hesitated.
Towards the close of the year 1815 they clubbed their savings, amounting to about twenty thousand francs, earned by the sweat of their brows, and bought of Madame Guenee the property and good-will of her celebrated shop, the "Family Sister," one of the largest retail establishments in the quarter. Sylvie kept the books and did the writing. Jerome-Denis was master and head-clerk both.
"She is very good and pure." "May she always be so. Go on." Wilkins looked at him searchingly for a moment, but the boy met his glance steadily, and the head-clerk withdrew his eye with an air of one who is suddenly made aware of entertaining unjust suspicions; and he went on, with a smile, getting down from his desk, and standing near to Guly meanwhile.
So, to conclude, the head-clerk, who was the late head-clerk's deputy for two years, agrees to take the girl with the business." "Mean wretch!" exclaimed Lousteau. "What! in two hours he has made up his mind?" "Bless me, that is simple enough.
The head-clerk of the firm, a cool, steady, methodical German with nothing but business in his head, was discussing a project with one of the journalists, and as they chatted they walked on into the woods beyond the park.
An' the Grotkau the Grotkau of all conceivable bottoms soaking up every pound that should be ours at Liverpool! "I was staggered wi' this folly considerin' the dinner at Radley's in connection wi' the same. "Ye may well stare, McPhee, says the head-clerk.
"I say, Marneffe, what would you say to being a second time a father?" "You don't mean it a baby? Oh, let me kiss you!" He rose and went round the table; his wife held up her head so that he could just kiss her hair. "If that is so," he went on, "I am head-clerk and officer of the Legion of Honor at once. But you must understand, my dear, Stanislas is not to be the sufferer, poor little man."
I know you only want to get to your work; but I know more about City ways than you, and I advise you not to do more than is your work. The head-clerk always unlocks the letter-box, and brings the letters into Mr. Jones when he arrives. Stella listened to this speech in silence.
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