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Absolutely true! Only last night the Accountant was at his desk after eleven, to look for his spectacles.

Absolute truth!

I swear it is all absolute truth!

All this is the unadulterated truth, reader! You probably don’t know that the young German who stood on the Exchange near pillar No. 17 has run away with the daughter of Busselinck & Waterman! And our own Mary will be thirteen next September!

Here I repeated all that immorality business, and told the story of the daughter of Busselinck & Waterman. Not in order to blacken anyone no, throwing dirt is entirely foreign to my habits! But it can do no harm that they should know it, I should think.