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Updated: May 21, 2025
If I know arithmetic that will give three empty places for us to fill " Bixiou. "Three places right under our noses, which will certainly be given to some bloated favorite, some spy, some pious fraud, to Colleville perhaps, whose wife has ended where all pretty women end in piety." Dutocq. Dutocq. "I don't wish to be anything more than under-head-clerk.
"What has happened?" Dutocq. "Do you remember what I said to you about that caricature?" Bixiou. "Yes, what then?" Dutocq. "Make it, and you shall be under-head-clerk with a famous fee. The fact is, my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that be. The minister is pledged to Rabourdin, but if he doesn't appoint Baudoyer he offends the priests and their party.
The poor supernumerary, on the other hand, who is the only real worker, is almost always the son of some former clerk's widow, who lives on a meagre pension and sacrifices herself to support her son until he can get a place as copying-clerk, and then dies leaving him no nearer the head of his department than writer of deeds, order-clerks, or, possibly, under-head-clerk.
"I could get a man to make a caricature, but I haven't five hundred francs to pay for it." "Who would make it?" "Bixou." "He shall have a thousand and be under-head-clerk to Colleville, who will arrange with them; tell him so." "But he wouldn't believe it on nothing more than my word." "Are you trying to make me compromise myself? Either do the thing or let it alone; do you hear me?"
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