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- # Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence
## Overview
This segment, titled "Narrator's decision to move offices and Bartleby's continued presence," is a textual excerpt from the short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener." It covers lines 1205 through 1217 of the source text and details the narrator's plan to relocate his offices and inform Bartleby of his departure. The segment was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context
This segment is part of the short story "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP)," a work by Herman Melville. The story itself was extracted from the file "[bartleby_the_scrivener.txt](arke:01KG89J1CRGPEZ66W67EZPAMPE)" and is included within the larger "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. This segment follows the narrator's previous attempts to persuade Bartleby to leave, as detailed in the preceding segment, "[Narrator's resolve to remove Bartleby and attempts to persuade him](arke:01KG8AJNQCK4QC16JW75NZDEMB)."
## Contents
The narrator, frustrated by Bartleby's persistent refusal to leave his employment, decides to move his offices. He informs Bartleby of this decision, stating that he will be moving to new premises due to the unwholesome air and that Bartleby's services will no longer be required. Bartleby offers no reply to this announcement. The segment ends with the narrator's statement that he will treat Bartleby as a trespasser if he appears at the new offices.
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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