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This head-clerk, having purchased his master's house of business, was now a prosperous man, the father of two children, and one of the district Maire's deputies. La Rousse, now Madame Prelard, had never had the smallest ground for complaint, either of Jacques Collin or of his aunt; still, each time she was required to help them, Madame Prelard quaked in every limb.
The well-known and avowed intentions of Alexandre Crottat, head-clerk to Roguin, and the wealth of his father, a rich farmer of Brie, were certainly obstacles in the lad's way; but even these were not the hardest to conquer. Popinot buried in the depths of his heart a sad secret, which widened the distance between Cesarine and himself.
He was fond of repeating his motto, with no little exultation in the triumph he had achieved over his pleasure-loving disposition. To this fidelity to business he owed his situation as "Agent," or head-clerk, of the branch store of Jackson, Jones & Co. If he could have kept from spending money as fast as he made it, he might have been a partner in the firm.
He had rather deep-set blue eyes, which might have been attractive but for a certain keenness in their outlook, which was in a sense indicative of the methods and character of the young man himself; a pale, characterless face, a straggling, sandy moustache, and an earnest, not to say convincing, manner. He was dressed in such garments as the head-clerk of Messrs.
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.
"She was our big freighter McIntyre was engineer an' I knew she'd come from overhaul not three months. That morn I met McRimmon's head-clerk ye'll not know him fair bitin' his nails off wi' mortification. "'The auld man's gone gyte, says he. 'He's withdrawn the Lammergeyer. "'Maybe he has reasons, says I. "'Reasons! He's daft! "'He'll no be daft till he begins to paint, I said.
His customers brought him the news that during the night the public prosecutor had sent the deputy manager and the head-clerk to prison as well. This news did not disturb Avdeyev. He was convinced that he had been slandered, and that if he were to lodge a complaint to-day the examining magistrate would get into trouble for the search of the night before.
"I am M. Tabareau's head-clerk, sir," he said; "he sent me here to take charge of your interests, and to superintend the funeral arrangements. Is this your wish?" "You cannot safe my life, I haf not long to lif; but you vill leaf me in beace!" "Oh! you shall not be disturbed," said Villemot. "Ver' goot. Vat must I do for dat?"
'That is my business, she said curtly. 'I only thought you might have some letter that you were expecting which wanted answering, he said, half-offended, for Stella's manner was not conciliatory. 'No, thank you; I will wait until Mr. James comes, she repeated. It was evidently no good talking to Stella, whom the head-clerk designated to himself a haughty young woman.
Had a hair got into the pen of the head-clerk, who had made the entry? or was there some trifling defect in the paper, at that particular part of the page? She once more raised one side of the ledger so that the light fell at an angle on the writing.
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