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- # Bartleby's Removal and Initial Confinement
## Overview
This segment, titled "Bartleby's Removal and Initial Confinement," is an excerpt from the short story "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP)". It was extracted from the file "[bartleby_the_scrivener.txt](arke:01KG89J1CRGPEZ66W67EZPAMPE)" and is part of the "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. The segment covers lines 1394 to 1402 of the source text.
## Context
This segment follows the narrator's frantic escape from his office and his landlord's subsequent actions. The previous segment, "[Narrator's flight and Bartleby's removal](arke:01KG8AJQ3CQB4GAAKBZK59MTPQ)", details the narrator's efforts to evade his landlord and tenants after Bartleby's repeated refusals to comply with demands. The landlord, frustrated, has Bartleby removed to the Tombs (the city jail) as a vagrant. This segment describes Bartleby's silent and passive acceptance of his arrest and his procession through the city streets to the jail.
## Contents
The text describes Bartleby's quiet acquiescence when informed he must be taken to the Tombs. A crowd of curious onlookers joins the procession, with a constable escorting Bartleby. The segment captures the stark contrast between Bartleby's silent, pale demeanor and the "noise, and heat, and joy of the roaring thoroughfares at noon" through which he is led. The following segment, "[Narrator's Visit to the Tombs and Interaction with Bartleby](arke:01KG8AJQ3D33H06YKM790GHKYE)", details the narrator's subsequent visit to the jail to see Bartleby.
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- Bartleby's Removal and Initial Confinement
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- As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be
conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his
pale unmoving way, silently acquiesced.
Some of the compassionate and curious bystanders joined the party; and
headed by one of the constables arm in arm with Bartleby, the silent
procession filed its way through all the noise, and heat, and joy of
the roaring thoroughfares at noon.
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- Bartleby's Removal and Initial Confinement