In countries where individuals are not proficient in the local language, basic tasks like opening a bank account, booking a medical appointment, or navigating public transportation can become overwhelming.
And if his stock was in such condition, what mustn't his accounts be! I'll look at his account book now, she thought and, picking up the lamp, she went into the front of the store.
" You're making everyone crazy." " Then he reached out and took my plumb line, and my level and my account book, and he walked back down to Korphe, " Mortenson says.
The account book, compiled to establish the value of lands for royal taxation, could be challenged no more than Judgment Day itself, and was named in the 12th century as the Doomsday Book.
All these facts lie somewhere, presumably, in parish registers and account books; the life of the average Elizabethan woman must be scattered about somewhere, could one collect it and make a book of it.