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Clerk in sentence

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The clerk declared he would not fail to do so, being obliged, moreover, to go to Yonville on some business for his office.
By the side of a Parisienne in her laces, in the drawing-room of some illustrious physician, a person driving his carriage and wearing many orders, the poor clerk would no doubt have trembled like a child; but here, at Rouen, on the harbour, with the wife of this small doctor he felt at his ease, sure beforehand he would shine.
The clerk said that ideal natures were difficult to understand.
In the evening Emma wrote the clerk an interminable letter, in which she cancelled the rendezvous; all was over; they must not, for the sake of their happiness, meet again.
"Oh, no!" cried the clerk.
Then with a more serious air, "Do you know, it is very improper—""How so?" replied the clerk.
The clerk then felt the lowliness of his position; he longed for epaulettes, crosses, titles.
He thought that the clerk had perhaps seen her; but where did he live?
The house inhabited by the clerk had neither bell, knocker, nor porter.
The druggist would formerly have taken good care not to use such an expression, but he was cultivating a gay Parisian style, which he thought in the best taste; and, like his neighbour, Madame Bovary, he questioned the clerk curiously about the customs of the capital; he even talked slang to dazzle the bourgeois, saying bender, crummy, dandy, macaroni, the cheese, cut my stick and "I'll hook it," for "I am going."
In vain the clerk tried to get rid of him.
asked the clerk.
And as the clerk still insisted—"I'll go with you.
But Lheureux, all the same, went on with his work, helped by a young girl of about thirteen, somewhat hunch-backed, who was at once his clerk and his servant.
Besides, he was soon to be head clerk; it was time to settle down.
There were a clerk, two medical students, and a shopman—what company for her!
Where can Saint Clement be?'A little clerk, who was next to him, informed him that the venerable relic was in the upper part of the building, in a _chapelle ardente_.
He had realised from the first that the Bonapartist Falcoz was the early playmate of M. de Renal, repudiated by him in 1816, while the philosopher Saint-Giraud must be a brother of that chief clerk in the Prefecture of ----, who knew how to have municipal property knocked down to him on easy terms.
Julien had engaged a clerk who copied out the instructions relative to each piece of business in a special book.
Julien suggested engaging a clerk from a bank, who should keep an account by double entry of all the revenue from and expenditure on the estates of which he himself had charge.
At that moment, the young clerk who was serving mass rang the bell for the Elevation.
He turned to K. with the tone of someone who knows his facts and said, "you are a house painter?""No," said K., "I am the chief clerk in a large bank."
So that the servitor wouldn't come in, he called out, "It's only me!""Good evening, chief clerk," somebody called back.
I asked what sort of legal proceedings it was that were being conducted against the chief clerk, and whether he was not making some mistake, but he said he was not making any mistake, there were legal proceedings underway and even that they were about something quite serious, but he did not know any more about it.
He would have liked to have been of some help to the chief clerk himself, as the chief clerk was a gentleman, good and honest, but he did not know what it was he could do and merely hoped there would be some influential gentlemen who would take his side.
I'm sure that is what will happen and that everything will turn out for the best in the end, but in the mean time things do not look at all good, and you can see that from the mood of the chief clerk himself.
Of course, I did not place too much importance on this conversation, and even did my best to put the bank clerk's mind at rest, he was quite a simple man.
"The office director - oh, yes, forgive me, I haven't introduced you - this is my friend Albert K., this is his nephew, the chief clerk Josef K., and this is the office director - so, the office director was kind enough to pay me a visit.
The manufacturer said he was sorry to find the chief clerk so little inclined to do business, pointing to K. who, under the view of the deputy director, had bent back down over the papers.
The deputy director had been paying all his attention to the conversation and did no more than glance at the paper, he did not read what was written on it at all as what was important for the chief clerk was not important for him, he took it from K.'s hand saying, "Thank you, I'm already familiar with everything", and lay it calmly back on the desk.
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