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record the fact that I was not unemployed in my At one end they looked looked upon the white wall of the profession by the late John Jacob Jaco b Astor, Astor, a name which, interior of a spacious skylight shaft, penetrating the I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and building from top to bottom. I do not speak it in vanity, vanity, but simply My chambers were upstairs at No._ Wall Wall Street. The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little premature act, inasmuch as I had counted upon a given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in prolife lease of the profits, whereas I only received those nouncing my first grand point to be prudence, my of a few short years. All who know me consider me an eminently Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a safe man. I seldom seldom lose my temambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury or in per, per, much more seldom indulge in dangerous indigany way draws down public applause, but, in the nation at wrongs and outrages, but I must be percool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business mitted to be rash here and declare that I consider among rich men’s bonds, and mortgages, and title the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of deeds.
I am one of those un- very pleasantly pleasantly remunerati remunerative. Hence, though I belong to a profesbiographies of all other scriveners for a few passages sion proverbially energetic and nervous even to turin the life lif e of Bartleby Bartleb y, who was a scrivener, the strangbulence at times, yet nothing of that sort have I ever est I ever saw or heard of. Imprimis: I am a privately private ly, and, if I pleased, could cou ld relate divers histohist o- man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled ries at which good-natured gentlemen might smile with a profound profound conviction conviction that the easiest way of and sentimental souls might weep. I dispensable to an adequate understanding of the chief have known very many of them, professionally and character about to be presented. tions for the last thirty years has brought me into Ere introducing the scrivener as he first appeared more than ordinary contact with what would seem to me, it is fit I make some mention of myself, my an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of employees, my business, my chambers and general whom, as yet, nothing that I know of has ever been surroundings, because some such description is in written - I mean the law-copyists, or scriveners. The nature of my avocaI AM A appear in the sequel. What my own asChapter 1 tonished eyes saw of Bartleby, that is that is all I know of him, except, indeed, one vague report, which will AM A RATHER RATHER ELDERLY MAN ELDERLY MAN. Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable except from the original sources, and, in his case, those are very small.
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