The waning light of a October night shone regarding the reflectors away from windows regarding the cellar counting-house, as well as the clerk during the part desk could hardly discern that the clock in the green painted wall surface that is dusty up to a quarter to six.
In quarter-hour Edward Povey's twenty-two several years of dedicated solution into the passions of Messrs. Kyser, Schultz & business would arrive at a conclusion, while the desk into the part to which he'd been promoted fifteen years back would by regulations that is immutable of pass to the control of their junior. Edward noticed this junior now therefore the glances which that guy that is young during the scratched and ink-stained slab of mahogany which was to represent their kingdom associated with morrow. Edward wondered dully perhaps the guy that is young as saturated in hope as he himself have been. Maybe he had been waiting to be hitched even while he, Edward, had waited fifteen years back. Then though the period for the child hadn't been so pronounced it had been death that had eliminated their predecessor since it is to-day, and.