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Since an incomprehensible lack of logic in directing his life had forced him to become a laborer, he desired to choose the field and the manner according to his own individuality.
Bannon drummed on the table; then he went to the door and called to a laborer who was leaving the tool house: "Find Mr. Peterson and ask him if he will please come to the office for a moment." He came slowly back and sat on the corner of the table, watching Miss Vogel as her pencil moved rapidly up column after column. "Had quite a time up there in Michigan," he said.
Here was a man who asked for but the plainest fare; who ministered to his own simple needs with his own hands; who worked out as a laborer only when he needed money to buy books and magazines; and who saw to it that the major portion of his waking time was for enjoyment. He loved to loaf long afternoons in the shade with his books or to be up with the dawn and away over the hills.
"And how old are you?" "Te! He! 'Deed ah don' know how ol' ah is; ah gone los' mah age paper." "Is he married?" "Can he read?" "What kind of work does he do?" "Yes, naturally. But what kind of work does he do. Is he a laborer?" Oh, no, mah sweet mahster, he jes' shovel away de dirt befo' de steam shovel." "All right. That 'll do for 'Rasmus. Now your name?" "Mah name Mistress Jane Iggleston."
They represented him as an unfaithful, or unskillful laborer in the gospel, and as one who was not a subject of divine grace. This appears from his statement in the beginning of the context, and from the text. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
They have found the short cut to the productions of Nature, while others, in pursuit of them, are obliged to wind through the labyrinth of a very intricate state of society. They seize upon the fruit of the labor; they seize upon the laborer himself.
This Taboureau," Benassis went on, addressing Genestas, "is for me a whole philosophical treatise; take a good look at him when he comes, he is sure to amuse you. He was a laborer, a thrifty, hard-working man, eating little and getting through a good deal of work.
"We call them weeds. Have you much of it?" "Oh, yes; lots. Why?" "Oh, nothing." "Eddie tells me you're going home." "Yes," said Reggie, seating himself and carefully pulling up his trousers. "I'm fed up for my part with God's own country. Nature never intended me to be an agricultural laborer." "No? And what are you going to do now?" "Loaf!" Mr. Hornby's tone expressed profound conviction.
She did not go through, but she looked over the gate, telling herself that those barns and sheds, that wealth of straw-yard, those sleeping pigs and idle, dreaming calves, were all her own. As she did so, her eye fell upon an old laborer, who was sitting close to her, on a felled tree, under the shelter of a paling, eating his dinner.
Obliged to rise before daybreak, by turns shop-boy, clerk, and laborer, he was made to bear alone all the work of a trade of which his master reaped all the profits. In truth, this latter had a peculiar talent for making the most of the labor of other people. Though unfit himself for the execution of any kind of work, no one knew better how to sell it.
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