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Thomas Gaylord were apt to be well received and Tom had been making suggestions. Early as he was at his office the office-boy was sprinkling the floor young Tom had a visitor who was earlier still. Pausing in the doorway, Mr.
Edward Silk, a young man of forlorn aspect, who combined in his person the offices of messenger, cleaner, and office-boy to the firm. He brought in some letters, and placing them on Mr. Swann's desk retired. "There's another," said the latter, as the door closed. "His complaint is Amelia Kybird, and he's got it badly. She's big enough to eat him, but I believe that they are engaged.
And putting one thing and another together they somehow connected this little urchin with the boy they saw crouching on the doorstep of Number 13, Shy Street the day of their arrival, and with the office-boy whom Mr Sniff described as having been Reginald's companion during his last days at the office.
"But, after all, one lives on mutton; and, as the sublime Beranger says, 'Poor sheep! you were made to be shorn," and he hummed the political squib by way of giving vent to his feelings. Then he rang for the office-boy. "Call my carriage," he said. "Rue de Hanovre," he told the coachman.
The work now done by janitors and porters fell to the office-boy, and my duties included sweeping and dusting the office, cleaning windows, and in winter making fires. This work, menial and distasteful as it was to the boy brought up in luxury, was cheerfully undertaken, and it is only referred to here to show that my start was from the first round of the ladder.
He had no chance of attracting the notice of big editors by his present work, and he had no leisure for doing any other. All of which may go to explain why his normal aspect was that of a caged eagle. To him, brooding over the outpourings of Luella Granville Waterman, there entered Pugsy Maloney, the office-boy, bearing a struggling cat. "Say!" said Pugsy.
And when it's over, if you want to get out of the picture business, you'll find that you can get a dozen first-rate jobs from men who wouldn't have taken you in as their office-boy a season ago.... Give my love to your wife, Henry, and tell her for me that I'm proud of you." "I'll tell her," said Henry, "but I won't be proud until I've nailed that skin over the barn-door."
I went to the window; the office-boy was lying flat on the lawn, feeding the goldfish in the fountain. This proved beyond a doubt that my uncle was not in. I went downstairs to the kitchen. "Well, Madeleine, has he gone out?" "He went at six o'clock, Monsieur Fabien." "Why didn't you wake me?" "How could I guess? Never, never does he go out before breakfast.
I have spent too much time in equipping myself to express valuable ideas in discriminating language to be kicked out of a second-rate newspaper office like an incompetent office-boy. Of course I shall not submit to it." "Do you care to tell me what you mean to do?" "Do!" He hit the door-post a sudden blow with an unexpectedly large hand. "I shall have myself elected editor of the Post."
"Oh, of course everyone knows about those things, but what good are they?" They were a good deal of good to Ben. He pressed on toward his final goal. "What is your attitude toward fairies?" he asked, and Miss Cox would have heard in his tone a faint memory of his voice when he engaged a new office-boy.
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