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- # Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a segment extracted from the short story "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG6YFY3GPNBP5AAFESQKDTDR)" by Herman Melville. The segment, labeled "Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence," spans lines 1205-1217 of the source text file, [bartleby_the_scrivener.txt](arke:01KG6YDD8YHX9PCQE3NTAG8XF1). It was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This segment is part of the short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener," which is included in the [Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF) collection, representing the complete works of Herman Melville. The segment follows the narrator's attempts to persuade Bartleby to leave, as described in the preceding segment, [Narrator's resolve to remove Bartleby and attempts to persuade him](arke:01KG6YGC7P08XQ9RFVG71M36JH). It is followed by [Bartleby's continued refusal to leave the old premises and the narrator's denial of responsibility](arke:01KG6YGC7TAYJQMM96XWAHJXEJ).
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The segment describes the narrator's decision to move his offices as a solution to Bartleby's refusal to leave. The narrator informs Bartleby of the move and the termination of his services, giving him notice to seek other employment. Bartleby makes no reply.
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- Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence
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- to do. No more then. Since he will not quit me, I must quit him. I will
change my offices; I will move elsewhere; and give him fair notice,
that if I find him on my new premises I will then proceed against him
as a common trespasser.
Acting accordingly, next day I thus addressed him: “I find these
chambers too far from the City Hall; the air is unwholesome. In a word,
I propose to remove my offices next week, and shall no longer require
your services. I tell you this now, in order that you may seek another
place.”
He made no reply, and nothing more was said.
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- Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence