1 "He is not," returned the clerk.
2 "Go and wait outside, Mike," said the clerk.
3 I then found that Wemmick was the clerk in the next room.
4 The Church not being "thrown open," he was, as I have said, our clerk.
5 The clerk and clergyman then appearing, we were ranged in order at those fatal rails.
6 With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
7 Within a month, I had quitted England, and within two months I was clerk to Clarriker and Co.
8 "Here's Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.
9 I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else's disadvantage, as his master had.
10 Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
11 When I told the clerk that I would take a turn in the air while I waited, he advised me to go round the corner and I should come into Smithfield.
12 It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian's establishment with that of his cashier and clerk.
13 Another clerk was rung down from up stairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian.
14 I began to say that I hoped I was not interrupting, when the clerk shoved this gentleman out with as little ceremony as I ever saw used, and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone.
15 Finding such clerk on Wemmick's post that morning, I knew what was going on; but I was not sorry to have Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear for himself that I said nothing to compromise him.
16 Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
17 Stepping in for a moment at the open gate, and looking around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue-compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem.
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