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That's wot's the matter with me. If you only saw the inside o' my mind you'd be astonished." "I thoroughly believe you," said I, laughing. "And do you really advise him to go, granny?" "Yes, my dear, I do," replied Mrs Willis, in her sweet, though feeble tones. "You've no idea how he's been slaving and working about me.
When one looked across the dining-room, and saw her face among those of the girls, it looked bleached and grey, the face of a tired, worn woman. "The idea of working and slaving all one's youth to be like Miss Mott!" Rhoda exclaimed contemptuously, but Miss Everett insisted on her position. "Miss Mott is a capital example. You could not have a better.
"Slaving!" said Jael, with a lofty air of pity. "Why, she is working for her own." Rural logic! "Oh," said Mrs. Little to her, "these clever creatures we look up to so are rather stupid in some things. Slave! Why, I am a general leading my Amazons to victory." And she waved her needle gracefully in the air. "Well, but why not let the shop do them, where you bought the curtains?
He had to live at the Ingmar Farm and be under the domination of his father-in-law; and also at the Ingmar Farm hard work and frugality were the rule of the day. As long as Ingmar Ingmarsson lived Elof seemed quite content with his lot, toiling and slaving with never so much as a complaint.
But old man Nelson is a cool-blooded, level-headed old fellow; has seen a lot of life, too. And then there's Craig. He has a better head than I have, and is as hot-blooded, and yet he is living and slaving away in that hole, and really enjoys it. There must be something in it. 'Oh, look here, Graeme, I burst out impatiently; 'what's the use of your talking like that?
"I may laugh, but I'm in earnest too. I have plenty to eat and drink; I can pay my tailor and still have a little money in my pocket; I am my own master. Sometimes I ride another man's horse: if not I walk, and am just as well content. I don't smoke I don't bet I have no expensive tastes. What could money do for me that I should spend the best years of my life in slaving for it?"
He began to fear that she would Weaken, so he told her that while he was slaving and humping in the City, it would give him sufficient Joy to know that Darling was out in the Woods, listening to the Birds. He insisted that she should stay until she was thoroughly Rested. Of course, he did not dare to make it too Strong.
His genius thus powerfully portrays the interrelation of the seething unrest among those slaving in the bowels of the earth, and the spiritual revolt that seeks artistic expression.
The boy he sent to the grammar school; he must be educated, not so much for his own sake as to train a successor to the business; and Sechard treated the lad harshly so as to prolong the time of parental rule, making him work at case on holidays, telling him that he must learn to earn his own living, so as to recompense his poor old father, who was slaving his life out to give him an education.
They're having a sale of work." "Oh, damn Dorcases! You're always slaving for somebody. You'll ruin your eyes. I wonder Dick allows it. I shouldn't I know that." The peal of laughter that greeted these words came equally from husband and wife. Then: "What the dickens does it matter to you, sir, how much sewing my wife chooses to do?" cried Mahony, and, still laughing, stepped out of the window.
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