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 1     1|        have died a fourth-class clerk without the aid of a kindly
 2     1|     hopeless expectation of the clerk's ideal, an increase of
 3     1|           First as a government clerk, then as a Frenchman and
 4     1|      him; he was appointed head clerk on the first of January,
 5     1| fifty-five years old, bachelor, clerk. Full-blooded, danger of
 6     1|       shoes were shown him. The clerk brought out a kind of ironclad
 7     1|        was a silent old copying clerk named Boivin, nicknamed
 8     4|     lack of breath, the rickety clerk with his wife and brat in
 9     4|        it?" asked the surprised clerk. The other shook his head
10     4|  nothing. Then, in despair, the clerk bought three flags and four
11     5|             She returned to the clerk full of joy, her eyes sparkling,
12     6|        Monsieur Patissot, chief clerk; then Messieurs de Sombreterre
13     6|         upheld, and the copying clerk, Monsieur Boivin.~ ~Monsieur