Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
page 79 of 192 (41%)
page 79 of 192 (41%)
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{Carlist = supporter of King Charles X of France, who was deposed in 1830 by King Louis Philippe} This remark made me melancholy, by reviving the recollection of Adrienne, and the conversation ceased. An hour or two later, I was removed from the line, properly ironed, and returned to my boss. The same day I was placed in a shop in Broadway, belonging to a firm of which I now understood the colonel was a sleeping partner. A suitable entry was made against me, in a private memorandum book, which, as I once had an opportunity of seeing it, I will give here. Super-extraordinary Pocket-Handkerchief, French cambric, trimmed and worked, in account with Bobbinet & Gull. DR. To money paid first cost--francs 100, at 5.25, -- $19.04 To interest on same for -- 00.00 To portion of passage money, -- 00.04 To porterage, -- 00.00 1/4 To washing and making up, -- 00.25 (Mem.--See if a deduction cannot be made from this charge.) CR. By cash, for allowing Miss Thimble to copy pattern--not to be worked until our article is sold, -- $1. 00 By cash for sale, &c. -- {in account with.... = this and subsequent "accounts" are presented by Cooper in tabular form, generally without decimal points in the figures; |
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