Could the alarm have failed to go off? From the bed, you could see that it was correctly set at four o’clock it must have gone off. It was six-thirty, and the hands of the clock were calmly inching forward, it was even past the half hour, it was almost a quarter to.
I’ll make a big, clean break! But for now, I’ve got to get up, my train is leaving at five A.M.”Īnd he glanced at the alarm clock ticking on the wardrobe. Well, I haven’t abandoned all hope once I’ve saved enough to pay off my parents’ debt to him-that should take another five or six years-I’ll go through with it no matter what. He would have toppled from his desk! Besides, it’s so peculiar the way he seats himself on it and talks down to the employees from his great height, and we also have to get right up close because he’s so hard of hearing. If I weren’t holding back because of my parents, I would have given notice long ago, I would have marched straight up to the boss and told him off from the bottom of my heart. And anyway, who knows, that might be very good for me. Just let me try that with my boss I’d be kicked out on the spot. For instance, whenever I return to the hotel during the morning to write up my orders, those men are still having breakfast. Other traveling salesmen live like harem women. “Getting up so early all the time,” he thought, “makes you totally stupid.
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