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comply
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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In my haste and natural expectancy of instant compliance, I sat with my head bent over the original on my desk, and my right hand sideways, and somewhat nervously extended with the copy, so that immediately upon emerging from his retreat, Bartleby might snatch it and proceed to business without the least delay.†

compliance = willingness or ability to follow rules, requests, or expectations
You are decided, then, not to comply with my request—a request made according to common usage and common sense?†
—of pallid haughtiness, say, or rather an austere reserve about him, which had positively awed me into my tame compliance with his eccentricities, when I had feared to ask him to do the slightest incidental thing for me, even though I might know, from his long-continued motionlessness, that behind his screen he must be standing in one of those dead-wall reveries of his.†

compliance = willingness or ability to follow rules, requests, or expectations
At last, familiarly drawing my chair behind his screen, I sat down and said: "Bartleby, never mind then about revealing your history; but let me entreat you, as a friend, to comply as far as may be with the usages of this office.†
I rather absurdly concluded, knowing not with what possible threat to try to frighten his immobility into compliance.
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compliance = conforming to rules or the wishes of others

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