Excerpt from The Windsor Magazine, Vol. 1: January to June, 1895
It's really the most extraordinary affair I ever had to do with, he remarked to the placid face of the clock above mentioned. And I've been in the business just three and-thirty years at eleven a.m. Next Monday morning. I only hope I've done right, that's all.
As he spoke the chief bookkeeper, who had the treble advantage of being tall, pretty, and just eight-and-twenty years of age, entered the room. She noticed the open letter and the look upon her ch1ef's face, and her curiosity was proportionately excited.
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