Chapter

 1 1|      deteriorating annoyances. A clerk in the employ of the Rothchilds~
 2 1|      dissolution because an able clerk is sent~away and a middling
 3 1|    Monsieur Rabourdin's~eyes the clerk in relation to the budget
 4 2|        of the~ministry, the only clerk who did not tremble when
 5 2|      gave nothing out. Bixiou~(a clerk of whom more anon) caricatured
 6 3|       uncle of the young man, as clerk. Monsieur and Madame~Baudoyer,
 7 3|    always the son of some former clerk's widow, who~lives on a
 8 3|    Scribe's head-librarian was a~clerk in the Treasury.~ ~Besides
 9 4|      under head-clerk, and head-~clerk, otherwise called head or
10 4|        wipe the public feet. The clerk's office beyond is a large~
11 4|       administrative luxury. The clerk's office contents itself~
12 4|      without interest, albeit no clerk ever~borrowed of them without
13 4|        Far~too noble to injure a clerk, the chief was also too
14 4|      tell the~truth to an honest clerk, and what I call an honest
15 4|        and what I call an honest clerk is one like~that little
16 4|         tell us what you think a clerk really ought to be."~ ~"
17 4|          to be."~ ~"A government clerk," replied Antoine, gravely, "
18 4|         say harm of a~government clerk, you fellows. Gabriel, the
19 4|     arrive after Sebastien was a clerk of deeds in~Rabourdin's
20 4|         honor to be a government~clerk"; though he suspected him
21 4|         That man is a government clerk!" He wore~elegant boots
22 4|       the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage
23 4|          Desroys, the mysterious clerk of the division, consorted
24 4|       Nature, to a civil-service clerk~is, in fact, the sphere
25 5|           Rabourdin asked if any clerk had remained at the office
26 5|   nothing, not even a government clerk. I asked all particulars
27 5|         Saillard. No other~chief clerk gets that in any of the
28 5|         to one that a government clerk who~has no influence but
29 5|        in nobody; the government clerk~lives between two negations.
30 5|        to go even lower, a petty clerk becomes a~notary, a rag-picker
31 5|         an unhappy civil~service clerk, like Chazelle for instance,
32 5|       semi-minister to the head-~clerk as he entered, and not inviting
33 6|        Billardiere would be made Clerk of the Seals."~ ~Bixiou. "
34 6|     bureau and me as under-head-~clerk, you will secure the future
35 7|        Who is he?"~ ~"Your chief clerk."~ ~"Dutocq! People are
36 7|    interceded to keep your~chief clerk; he stole that abominable
37 8|          the secretary's~copying clerk, told me he sat up all the
38 8|           Am I to be under-head-~clerk?"~ ~Dutocq. "On my word
39 8|      precisely what a government clerk is? Do you know what he~
40 8|          soldier is a government clerk?"~ ~Poiret [puzzled]. "Why,
41 8|           Monsieur, a government clerk is,~logically speaking,
42 8| conclusion. So the bureau is the~clerk's shell, husk, pod. No clerk
43 8|     clerk's shell, husk, pod. No clerk without a bureau, no bureau
44 8|      bureau, no bureau without~a clerk. But what do you make, then,
45 8|        excise-man is only half a clerk; he is on~the confines between
46 8|        Where does the government clerk proper end?~That's a serious
47 8|         question. Is a prefect a clerk?"~ ~Poiret [hesitating]. "
48 8|      that a functionary is not a clerk? that's~an absurdity."~ ~
49 8|       something."~ ~Godard. "The clerk is the order, the functionary
50 8|        to all bureaus: Where the~clerk ends, the functionary begins;
51 8|    between the statesman and the clerk, just as the custom-house~
52 8|        speaking, may be called a~clerk, the head of a division
53 8|        clear that the~government clerk comes to a final end at
54 8|      uncertainty; the~government clerk who has hitherto seemed
55 8|          precious~documents, the clerk is terrified, for he lives