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regular life-sized man should be selling stockings to women for a living, or rather
for a fraction of a living."
While Jimmy had always been hugely disgusted with his position, the sight of the
girl seemed to have suddenly crystallized all those weeks of self-contempt into a
sudden almost mad desire to escape what he considered his degrading and
effeminating surroundings. One must bear with Jimmy and judge him leniently,
for after all, notwithstanding his college diploma and physique, he was still but a
boy and so while it is difficult for a mature and sober judgment to countenance
his next step, if one can look back a few years to his own youth he can at least
find extenuating circumstances surrounding Jimmy's seeming foolishness.
For with a bang that caused startled clerks in all directions to look up from their
work he shattered the decorous monotone of the great store by slamming his
sales book viciously upon the counter, and without a word of explanation to his
fellow clerks marched out of the section toward the buyer's desk.
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Well, Mr. Torrance," asked that gentleman, "what can I do for you?"
I am going to quit," announced Jimmy.
Quit!"' exclaimed the buyer. "Why, what's wrong? Isn't everything perfectly
satisfactory? You have never complained to me."
"I can't explain," replied Jimmy. "I am going to quit. I am not satisfied. I am
going to er--ah--accept another position."
The buyer raised his eyebrows. "Ah!" he said. "With--" and he named their
closest competitor.
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