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633 ：オレオレ！俺だよ！名無しだよ！[]：2010/10/02(土) 07:58:14 ID:uge4ok5hO - out to examine the papers without Bartleby, though at every page or
two, Turkey deferentially
dropped his opinion that this proceeding was quite out of
the common; while Nippers, twitching in his chair with a dyspeptic
nervousness, ground out between his set teeth occasional hissing
maledictions against the stubborn oaf behind the screen. And for his
(Nippers') part, this was the first and the last time he would do
another man's business without pay. Meanwhile Bartleby sat in his
hermitage, oblivious to every thing but his own peculiar business
there. Some days passed, the scrivener being employed
upon another lengthy work. His late remarkable conduct led me to
regard his ways narrowly. I observed that he never went to dinner;
indeed that he never went any where. As yet I had never of my personal
knowledge known him to be outside of my office. He was a perpetual
sentry in the corner. At about eleven o'clock though, in the morning,
I noticed that Ginger Nut would advance toward the opening in
Bartleby's screen, as if silently beckoned thither by a gesture
invisible to me where
I sat. The boy would then leave the office jingling a few pence, and
reappear
with a handful of ginger-nuts which he delivered
in the hermitage, receiving two of the cakes for his trouble. He
lives, then, on ginger-nuts, thought I; never eats a dinner, properly
speaking; he must be a vegetarian
then; but no; he never eats even vegetables, he eats nothing but
ginger-nuts. My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable
effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on ginger-nuts.
Ginger-nuts are so called because they contain ginger as one of their
peculiar constituents,
and
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