Excerpt from The Little Duchess: And Other Stories
He was the clerk of the cash tramway, and when the rolling balls gave him a moment"s leisure, used to look down from his high perch at the big shop beneath his feet, and, in his slow, quiet style, study the ways of the numberless assistants whose life-books thus opened to him so many of their pages.
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