Working with Turkey, Nippers, and Gingernut is the title character of, FTP, which Herman Melville short story whose protagonist's pet phrase is "I would prefer not to"?
Toward the end of this work, the grubman mistakes the protagonist for a gentleman forger because he is so pale and later notes that he seems to live without dining. At the opening of this work, the narrator introduces a character who becomes fervid and tends to make blots in the afternoon and an errand boy named for the type of cake he brings. The narrator also feels pity and sympathy for that lonely protagonist, who dies at the Tombs as a vagrant and ends the narration by exclaiming "Ah, humanity!" Conflict arises when the titular character, a former worker at the Dead Letters Office, begins to live in the office and refuses to quit his employer.  Working with Turkey, Nippers, and Gingernut is the title character of, FTP, which Herman Melville short story whose protagonist's pet phrase is "I would prefer not to"?
Toward the end of this work, the grubman mistakes the protagonist for a gentleman forger because he is so pale and later notes that he seems to live without dining.
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"