"If you need it," he says, "you are welcome to draw a little in advance; you can write for it, you know."
"If you need it," he says, "you are welcome to draw a little in advance; you can write for it, you know."
Now, as he had just seen that I was not capable of writing, this offer humiliated me somewhat, and I answered:
"No, thanks; I can pull through yet a while, thanking you very much, all the same. Good-day!"
"Good-day!" replies the "commandor," turning at the same time to his desk again.
