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pallid
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!†
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I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swan-like sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.†
And more than all, I remembered a certain unconscious air of pallid—how shall I call it?†
—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.†
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames?†

Definitions:

(1) (pallid)
abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)