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1  Everything was still, like in some office that has been forgotten about.
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2  , and this is the office director - so, the office director was kind enough to pay me a visit.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
3  I also work in an office and I'm quite used to office air, but here it seems to be too strong, you've said so yourselves.
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4  , at the bank, had a big office with an ante-room, and had an enormous window through which he could look down at the activity in the square.
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5  But the conversation seemed to have become a little uncomfortable for him, as he broke it off by saying, "now I have to report to the office."
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6  "I'm afraid I'll only be able to stay a few minutes more," smiled the office director as he spread himself out in the armchair and looked at the clock.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
7  It was true, though, that he had no secondary income from bribes and fraud, and he couldn't tell a servant to bring him a woman up to the office on his arm.
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8  , and now there were two people coming, it only needed a few and everyone in the office would become aware of him and asking for explanations as to why he was there.
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9  It's only possible to appreciate just how valuable a visit like this is if you've been let into the secret of what a pile of work the office director has heaped over him.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
10  s mind all through the following day; he was unable to concentrate on his work and had to stay in his office a little longer than the previous day so that he could finish it.
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11  He would come straight home from the office, remain in her room without the light on, and sit on the sofa with nothing more to distract him than keeping watch on the empty hallway.
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12  had called each of them, separately or all together, into his office that day for no other reason than to observe them; he was always satisfied and had always been able to let them go again.
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13  as he looked at the usher's civilian coat which, beside its ordinary buttons, displayed two gilded ones as the only sign of his office and seemed to have been taken from an old army officer's coat.
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14  looked at him with some curiosity, he was the first student he had ever met of the unfamiliar discipline of jurisprudence, face to face at least, a man who would even most likely attain high office one day.
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15  s uncle, who seemed very happy with his new acquaintance, but he was not the sort of person to express his feelings of deference and responded to the office director's words with embarrassed, but loud, laughter.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
16  usually spent his evenings after work - he usually stayed in the office until nine o'clock - with a short walk, either by himself or in the company of some of the bank officials, and then he would go into a pub where he would sit at the regulars' table with mostly older men until eleven.
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17  So off I go running as fast as I can, shout the message through the crack in the door of the office I've been sent to, so out of breath they'll hardly be able to understand it, run back here again, but the student's been even faster than I have - well he's got less far to go, he's only got to run down the steps.
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