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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
page 79 of 192 (41%)

{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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