practice among scriveners, he simply refused, saying simply "I prefer not to." (Melville 1049). Shocked and astonished the lawyer contemplated dismissing the scrivener and could not bring himself to do it. "There was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner, touched and disconnected me." (Melville 1049). Later he discovered that Bartleby had been living in the office, the lawyer didn't know how to approach the problem. He did end up letting him continue to live there. Further along in the story the scrivener decides to quit working completly, th!
             e lawyer assumes that it is due to an affliction of his eyes and allows this to contin
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