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Updated: June 11, 2025
He hired a shop-assistant, and Theresa sat all day at the till and learned to keep books. When she asked her husband what was the source of his capital, he answered that a friend who had great confidence in his ability had advanced him the money at a low rate of interest. He added that he had been pledged not to divulge the name of his friend. Theresa did not believe him.
There was an air of cold splendour and elaborate failure about the wares that were set out in its ample windows; they were the sort of toys that a tired shop-assistant displays and explains at Christmas time to exclamatory parents and bored, silent children.
A drunken shop-assistant egged on the crowd against this last suspect, so that his life was really in danger. He was rescued by four Prussian officers, who pretended to arrest their Bavarian colleague, and were in this way able to lead him into safety." This twentieth-century reign of terror is not, however, without a ray of humour.
Eve shook hands with him, and they walked on. Uncontrollable wrath seized on Hilliard and shook him from head to foot. A meeting of this kind was precisely what he had foreseen, and he resented it violently. Eve's acquaintance had the external attributes of a gentleman. One could not easily imagine him a clerk or a shop-assistant smartened up for the occasion.
Eden was not yet satisfied with what he had heard, and as Merton seemed inclined to drop the subject, which was not what he wanted, he remarked tentatively: "How curious then that Miss Affleck should now be compelled to make her own living as a shop-assistant!" "Oh, you got that out of her!" exclaimed Merton, in a tone of undisguised annoyance.
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