Bartleby the Scrivener
How does the narrator describe Bartleby's appearance at his interview?
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From the text:
I can see that figure now— pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby.
After a few words touching his qualifications, I engaged him, glad to have among my corps of copyists a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey, and the fiery one of Nippers.
Bartleby the Scrivener