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"You know it's false; it's a plot to ruin me and Jack." "Silence, sir!" said Mr Merrett, sternly. "I won't be silent," I shouted; "I never deceived you, and yet you go and believe what this miserable " Mr Merrett touched his bell angrily; but before any one answered it Mr Barnacle had looked up.
Hawkesbury also sat at the table, twisting a quill pen backwards and forwards with his fingers. "Hawkesbury," said Mr Merrett, as he re-entered, "you might leave us, please. I will call you when you are wanted." Hawkesbury, without looking at me, rose to obey. As he reached the door, Mr Merrett stepped after him, and whispered something.
Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's were not on absolutely brotherly terms. Anyhow I had to stick in the nibs unassisted. Presently the other clerks began to drop in, among them Mr Doubleday, who was very witty on the subject of my appointment, and told Wallop he understood I was to be admitted into partnership next week, and would then sign all the cheques.
I posted my letter, and the next few days seemed interminable. Whenever I spoke about the subject to my uncle he took care not to encourage me over much. And yet I fancied, gruff as he was, he was not wholly displeased at my "cheek" in answering Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's advertisement. "Successful!" growled he. "Why, there'll be scores of other boys after the place.
Of course, he told him to bring him what he was reading. Up went Merrett with the prospectus." "Was Appleby sick?" "I don't believe he was, really. At least, he laughed when he read the thing. But he hauled me up after school and gave me a long jaw, and made me take all the lines I'd got to his house. He burnt them. I had it out with Merrett just now.
He never wasted words in moments of emotion. "What!" "'Bust' was what I said. That beast Merrett gave the show away." "What did he do? Surely he didn't tell a master?" "Well, he did the next thing to it. He hauled out that prospectus, and started reading it in form. I watched him do it. He kept it under the desk and made a foul row, laughing over it. Appleby couldn't help spotting him.
Most of my twenty minutes in the middle of the day was thus taken up in buying articles of comfort or decoration for one and another of my seniors, or else changing books at the library, taking messages to other clerks in other offices, and otherwise laying myself out for the general good a self-denial which brought me more kicks than halfpence, but which, all the same, served to establish my footing as a regular member of the Export fraternity at Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's.
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