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He was a tall man, a little bent at the shoulders from long years of desk-work; and those who saw him for the first time were apt to be struck by a certain eager volatility of aspect expressed by the small head on its thin neck, by the wavering blue eyes, and smiling mouth not perhaps common in the chief cashiers of country banks.
He might have been punished less speedily had his faults been more radical, or his wrong-doings of a deeper dye. All All my poor scrapings, from a dozen years Of dust and desk-work. Sea Dreams.
When Fred went to the office the next morning, there was a test to be gone through which he was not prepared for. "Now Fred," said Caleb, "you will have some desk-work. I have always done a good deal of writing myself, but I can't do without help, and as I want you to understand the accounts and get the values into your head, I mean to do without another clerk. So you must buckle to.
How are you at writing and arithmetic?" Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to shrink. "I'm not afraid of arithmetic, Mr. Garth: it always came easily to me. I think you know my writing."
And such assemblies will in the future be far more necessary and valuable than such institutions would have been in the past, because, in former times, the rulers, not being nearly so much burdened with office and desk-work as they now are, had far more leisure time to mix with the people, and hear from them the expression of their wants or grievances.
Just the same with the desk-work down at the mill; so it may be the same now. Then came fragments of what poor Aubrey had expressed more than once at home that his interest in life, in study, in sport, was all gone with his friend. 'Come, Aubrey, that's stuff. You'd have had to go to Cambridge, you know, without me, after I doggedly put myself at that place.
He did not look fit for desk-work in London, but his mind was made up to any privation, so that he could be in reach of Alda, and hope to give her what he had once thought easily within his grasp.
This he exercised at his office desk with perfect deliberation. He purchased a box of delicately coloured and scented writing paper in monogram, which he kept locked in one of the drawers. His friends now wondered at the cleric and very official-looking nature of his position. The five bartenders viewed with respect the duties which could call a man to do so much desk-work and penmanship.
He served in a cavalry squadron on the staff of the King, and when the cause collapsed came to London. His uncle tried to induce him to settle down to some steady employment in the City. Leader expressed himself satisfied to make an experiment at desk-work. "It was useless," said Leader with a hearty crow as he related the story to me.
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