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Updated: May 15, 2025
The poor boy the foolish, enthusiastic, perhaps hysterical boy enjoying the poor blessings that were his with the prophetic eagerness those doomed to an early death so often exhibit, had taken his seat upon his office-stool as upon a throne; had blessed God for his career of junior clerk as for a high imperial lot; then had flung away, his short race hardly begun, the life he prized.
For thirteen hours together, without taking bite or sup, without ever once for a passing moment quitting the office-stool on which he was perched fortunately for him behind a strong barricade he answered the rush of applicants that steadily pressed one another onwards to the pigeon-hole, each drifting by exhausted when his claims were satisfied.
It seems that for seven and twenty years he had never missed being seated on his office-stool at the factory punctually at ten o'clock every day. He listened to Mrs. Fyne's objections with undisguised impatience. Why couldn't Florrie get up and have her breakfast at eight like other people? In his house the breakfast was at eight sharp. Mrs. Fyne's polite stoicism overcame him at last.
At the thought of going about applying for clerk's work, or anything of that kind, cold water flowed down his back; rather than that, he would follow Allchin's example, and turn porter an independent position compared with bent-backed slavery on an office-stool. Some means of earning money he must find without delay.
'Keep on with your walking; live in the open air, he said. 'You're not fitted for the office-stool. Stooping all day over a desk would be about the worst thing you could do. Thank you. That's all. Good-morning." "And you came away? You shouldn't have come away! You should have told him what it is to you. What you will have to put up with if you can't get the berth.
London is like a shelled corn-cob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing. Now just compare the racer with the trotter for a moment. The racer is incidentally useful, but essentially something to bet upon, as much as the thimble-rigger's "little joker."
The hard man sends him off without a scruple to that office-stool; the soft man assures him that there is much merit in his MS. Oh, my young aspirant, if ever such a one should read these pages, be sure that no one can tell you! To do so it would be necessary not only to know what there is now within you, but also to foresee what time will produce there.
Before the largest of the two pictures, and hard by a portable flight of steps, stood a rickety office-stool. On the platform for sitters a modern easy chair, with the cover in tatters, invited all models to picturesque repose. Close to the rosewood table was placed a rocking-chair, and between the legs of the deal table were huddled together a camp-stool and a hassock.
London is like a shelled corn-cob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing. Now just compare the racer with the trotter for a moment. The racer is incidentally useful, but essentially something to bet upon, as much as the thimble-rigger's "little joker."
I have generally found, in my experience, that it's their own money people are most particular about. I have seen people get rid of a good deal of other people's money, and bear it very well: very well indeed. With these comforting remarks, Mr Rugg seated himself on an office-stool at the desk and proceeded to business. 'Now, Mr Clennam, by your leave, let us go into the matter.
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