The Bookkeeper's Wife

Download or read book The Bookkeeper's Wife written by Willa Cather and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody but the janitor was stirring about the offices of the Remsen Paper Company, and still Percy Bixby sat at his desk, crouched on his high stool and staring out at the tops of the tall buildings flushed with the winter sunset, at the hundreds of windows, so many rectangles of white electric light, flashing against the broad waves of violet that ebbed across the sky. His ledgers were all in their places, his desk was in order, his office coat on its peg, and yet Percy's smooth, thin face wore the look of anxiety and strain which usually meant that he was behind in his work.