The Nothing Man
“Lovelace was patently not in the most pleasant of humors. A man of regular habits was Mr. Lovelace, a man who, like so many of the lower lower-animals, liked his full ten hours' sleep each night. Now that sleep had been disturbed; he, Austin Lovelace, had been disturbed twice in one night! And without, as he saw it, any very adequate cause.It was the old, old story. Because he was strong and wise-a tower of strength among pygmies-he was constantly overburdened. Everyone loaded his trifling trou...bles upon him.He was sleepy, puzzled, fretful. Very, very fretful. For me, the loyal, hard-working-and appreciative-servant, he managed a mumbled word of sympathy and a semifatherly handclasp. But it was obviously an effort."Very sad. Tragic… Insist you take the remainder of the week off, understand? Take as much time as you need-uh-within reason.""Thank you, sir," I said. "I believe two or three days will be sufficient. I own a burial plot in Los Angeles, and I thought-""By all means. Certainly.MoreLess
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