He might have sat quiet in his countinghouse and let the pounds and shillings come to him; he need not even have turned his pale eyes on the sometimes lively water of the Bay.
His family were always providing against his fatigue or excitement; at the countinghouse the gravest problems, he was certain, were withheld from him.
What an inexplicable accident or crime, he thought, hurriedly approaching the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone, the first and nearest of the places to which he must go.
I suppose I've been a damned nuisance about the countinghouse for a long time," he pronounced, turning.
He ate without attention whatever was before him, and extravagantly pleasant, related how he had conversed with Mrs. Gerrit Ammidon in the family carriage in front of the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone on Liberty Street.
In the midst of this a message came from the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone that the Nautilus would dock within an hour.
It was at the countinghouse of Shedlock and Craftall, in the High-street, that Bernard first paused in his excursion.
I was formerly clerk in a countinghouse of the town and I learned a great deal--what each is worth and what the freight of each voyage may produce--but not all.
At the age of fourteen he was taken from school and placed in a countinghouse where his duty was to clean out, sweep, and dust the place every morning; to be at the beck and call of his master; to copy letters and to add up figures.
