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a busy law firm, one of the partners, Mr. Alleyne, angri-

ly orders the secretary to send Farrington to his office. Farting-

ton is a copy clerk in the firm,responsible for making copies

of legal documents by band,and he has failed to produce an

important document on time. Mr. Alleyne taunts Farrington and

says harshly that if he does not copy the material by closing

time his incompetence will be reported to the other partner.

This meeting angers Farrington,who mentally makes evening

plans to drink with his friends as a respite.Farrington returns to

his desk but is unable to focus on work. He skirts past the chief

clerk to sneak out to the local pub where he quickly drinks a

beer.

     Two clients are speaking with the chief clerk when Far.

rington returns to the office, making his absence apparent. The

clerk asks him to take a file to Mr. Alleyne, who is also with a

client. Farrington realizes that the needed file is incomplete be.

cause he has failed to copy two letters as requested. Hoping

that Mr. Alleyne will not notice, Farrington delivers the incom.

plete file and returns to his desk to work on his project. Again

unable to concentrate,Farrington dreams of hot drinks and

crowded pubs, only to realize, with increasing rage, that com.

pleting the task is impossible and that he has no hope of get-

ting an advance on his paycheck to fund his thirst. Meanwhile,

Mr. Alleyne,having noticed the missing letters,has come to

Farrington's desk with his client, the jovial Miss Delacour, and

started another abusive critique of Farrington's work. Farting.

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    在一個繁忙的法律事務所，合伙人之一艾萊恩先

生狂怒地命令秘書叫法林敦到他的辦公室來．因為他

沒能及時抄好一份重要文件。法林敦是事務所里一名

抄寫員，負責手抄法律文件副本。艾萊恩先生辱罵法

林敦，嚴厲地說如果他下班之前還不把材料抄完，就

把他完不成工作的事捅到另一位合伙人那兒。這次見

面讓法林敦很氣憤．他腦子里盤算著晚上去和朋友們

喝酒泄憤。法林敦返回寫字桌但卻無法集中精力干

活。他避開主任，溜進了附近一個酒館，迅速喝下了一

杯啤酒。

    法林敦回到辦公室的時候．兩個客戶正在和主任

談話，很明顯主任發(fā)現(xiàn)了他的缺工。主任讓他拿著一

份檔案去找同樣正跟客戶在一起的艾萊恩先生。法林

敦意識到所需的檔案并不完整。因為他沒能按要求抄

寫完兩封信。法林敦把不完整的檔案遞過去，然后返

回桌旁開始干活兒，心里盼望艾萊恩先生看不出缺了

兩封信。但法林敦還是無法集中精力，他想象著熱酒

和擁擠的酒館，*后只是越來越惱怒地意識到要完成

任務是不可能了。而且他也沒什么希望預支點兒工資

去狂飲了。這時．艾萊恩先生注意到缺少了兩封信，于

是和他的客戶——快活的德拉科爾小姐一起來到法

林敦的桌旁．又一次兇狠地批評了法林敦的工作。法

林敦聲稱他不知道是怎么回事，還機智地侮辱艾萊恩

ton claims ignorance and wittily insults Mr. Alleyne to the a-

musement of Miss Delacour and his fellow clerks.

       Forced to apologize to Mr. Alleyne,Farrington leaves

work without completing his project and dreading the sure

backlash at the office. More determined than ever to go to the

pub, Farrington pawns his pocket watch for drinking money.At

his first stop he meets his friends Nosey Flynn,O'Halloran,

and Paddy Leonard, and tells them of his shining moment in-

sulting his boss. Another clerk from the office arrives and joins

them,repeating the story. Soon the men leave the pub,and O'

Halloran,Leonard,and Farrington move on to another place.

There Leonard introduces the men to an acrobat named

Weathers,who happily accepts the drinks the other men buy

for him. Farrington becomes irritated at the amount of money

he spends, but the men keep drinking and move to yet another

pub. Weathers meets the men there and Farrington begrudg-

ingly buys him another drink out of courtesy.Farrington's flus-

trations build as he flirts with an elegant woman sitting nearby

who ultimately ignores his advances. Leonard and O'Halloran

then convince Farrington to arm wrestle with Weathers,who

has been boasting about his strength to the men.After two at-

tempts, Farrington loses.

      Filled with rage and humiliation,Farrington travels home

to Shelbourne Road, a lower-middle-class area southeast of the

city center. Entering his dark house, he calls to his wife Ada

but is met by one of his five children, his son Tom. When

Tom informs him that Ada is at church, Farrington orders Tom

to light up the house and prepare dinner for him. He then real-,

izes that the house fire has been left to burn out, which means

his  dinner ill be long in coming. With his anger at boiling