ervous. “But I want to speak to you, please, when you’re at liberty.”
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“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.
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“A situation?” said Mr. Deane, and then took his pinch 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,Moncler Arcs, 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,Moncler Milan, however; I suppose you’re pretty well up in accounts, eh? You understand book keeping?”
“No,” said Tom, rather falteringly. “I was in Practice. But Mr. Stelling says I write a good hand,Belstaff Brian Dlouhé Bunda, uncle. That’s my writing,” added Tom, laying on the table a copy of the list he had made yesterday.
“Ah! that’s good,Michael Jordan Drakter, that’s good. But,Duvetica Ženy Thiacinque, you see, the best hand in the world’ll not get you 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,Ajax Drakt, then?”
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