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1 2|   like the Greek hermae. This functionary waited near~the fireplace
2 8| Poiret [hesitating]. "He is a functionary."~ ~Bixiou. "But you don'
3 8|     But you don't mean that a functionary is not a clerk? that's~an
4 8|       clerk is the order, the functionary the species."~ ~Bixiou [
5 8|     Where the~clerk ends, the functionary begins; where the functionary
6 8| functionary begins; where the functionary ends, the~statesman rises.
7 8|    your subtle distinction, a functionary, and~receiving a salary