Book, Chapter
1 I, VI | the office and up to the clerk’s little window was a much
2 I, VI | waiting-room, went to call an upper clerk. Michael Strogoff would
3 I, XVII| were dispatched. This was a clerk, calm, phlegmatic, indifferent
4 I, XVII| Nothing,” answered the clerk, smiling.~“Are the Russians
5 I, XVII| to reply to this strange clerk that he had no message to
6 I, XVII| wicket of the imperturbable clerk.~In these two men Michael
7 I, XVII| copecks a word,” said the clerk.~Blount deposited a pile
8 I, XVII| stupefaction.~“Good,” said the clerk. And with the greatest coolness
9 I, XVII| which he handed in to the clerk, who read out in his calm
10 I, XVII| endeavored to force the clerk to take his dispatch in
11 I, XVII| gentleman’s right,” answered the clerk coolly, pointing to Blount,
12 I, XVII| He again interrupted the clerk, who, quite unmoved, merely
13 I, XVII| him. Therefore, when the clerk had finished telegraphing
14 I, XVII| his dispatch, which the clerk read aloud: “Madeleine Jolivet,
15 I, XVII| when the imperturbable clerk said calmly: “Sir, the wire
16 II, VI | stationed there. I was the clerk in charge of the messages.”~“
17 II, VII | there.” In fact, this model clerk, after having stayed to
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