ervous. “But I want to speak to you, please, when you’re at liberty.”
“Sit down, sit down,” said Mr. Deane, relapsing into his accounts, in which he and the Ryan McDonagh Jersey managing-clerk remained so absorbed for the next half-hour that Tom began to wonder whether he should have to sit in this way till the bank closed — there seemed so little tendency toward a conclusion in the quiet, monotonous procedure of these sleek, prosperous men of business. Would his uncle give him a place in Dale Weise Jersey the bank? It would be very dull, prosy work, he thought, writing there forever to the loud ticking of a timepiece. He preferred Salomon XT Hawk Kengät some other way of getting rich. But at last there was a change; his uncle took a pen and wrote something with a flourish at the end.
“You’ll just step up to Torry’s now, Mr. Spence, will you?” said Mr. Deane, and the clock suddenly became less loud and deliberate in Tom’s ears.
“Well, Tom,” said Mr. Deane, when they were alone, turning his substantial person a little in his chair, and taking out his snuff-box; “what’s the business, my boy; what’s the business?” Mr. Deane, who had heard from his wife what had passed the day before, thought Tom was come to appeal to him for some means of averting the sale.
“I hope you’ll excuse me for troubling you, uncle,” said Tom, coloring, but speaking in a tone which, though, tremulous, had a certain proud independence in it; “but I thought you were the best person to advise me what to do.”
“Ah!” said Mr. Deane, reserving his pinch of snuff, and looking at Adirondack Tall Czyścibut 5498 Tom with new attention, “let us hear.”
“I want to Casual Noira Škornji 5678 get a situation, uncle, so that CG Miehet Ontario Parka I may earn some money,” said Tom, who never fell into circumlocution.
“A situation?” said Mr. Edmonton Oilers Jersey Deane, and then took his pinch Pascal Dupuis Jersey of snuff with elaborate justice to each nostril. Tom thought snuff-taking a most provoking habit.
“Why, let me see, how old are you?” said Mr. Deane, as he threw himself backward again.
“Sixteen; I mean, I am going in seventeen,” said Tom, hoping his uncle noticed how much beard he had.
“Let me see; your father had some notion of making you an engineer, I think?”
“But I don’t think I could get any money at that for a long while, could I?”
“That’s true; but people don’t get much money at anything, my boy, when they’re only sixteen. You’ve had a good deal of schooling, Belstaff Racemaster Blouson Kurtki however; I suppose you’re pretty well up in accounts, eh? St. Louis Blues Jersey You understand book keeping?”
“No,” said Tom, rather falteringly. “I was in Practice. But Mr. Stelling says I write a good hand, uncle. That’s my writing,” Mike Gartner Jersey added Tom, laying on the table a copy of the list he had made yesterday.
“Ah! that’s good, that’s good. But, you see, the best hand in the world’ll not get you Gloves a better place than a copying-clerk’s, if you know nothing of book-keeping — nothing of accounts. And a copying-clerk’s a cheap article. But what have you been learning at school, then?”
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