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But in the industrious backwaters of towns, where steady work means steady bread, it is the custom of men to take the climate as it comes to them, freezing or sweating at the weather-man's desire. Mountain and ocean, awninged gardens and breeze-swept deck: those solaces are not for these. Ninety Fahrenheit it ran and over, day after day, half of June, half of July. But in the old Dabney House Mrs.
A light gleamed ahead, and the sound of a single jack hammering on the end of a drill could be heard. Fairchild called and went forward, to find Harry, grimy and sweating, pounding away at a narrow streak of black formation which centered in the top of the stope. "It's the vein," he announced, after he had greeted Fairchild, "and it don't look like it's going to amount to much!" "No?"
He saw the knife raised and woke sweating. The church clock was booming three and a deep silence lay on the world. But there was somebody in his room. He knew that and lay motionless, peering out of half-closed eyes from one corner to the other. There was nobody to be seen, nothing to be heard, but his sixth sense told him that somebody was present.
He wiped his face with an agitated hand. "A week ago," he went on, "I knew you were detailed on this work. I've been sweating ever since. Now that you've come why, I'm glad of it!" A faint sneer touched Calder's mouth and was gone. "You're a wise man," he said. "Have you seen much of Jim Silent lately?" Hardy hesitated. The rôle of informer was new. "Not directly." Calder nodded.
It is a delightful part of my recollections of the harvest. O cool gray jug that touched the lips In kiss that softly closed and clung, No Spanish wine the tippler sips, No port the poet's praise has sung Such pure, untainted sweetness yields As cool gray jug in harvest fields. I see it now! a clover leaf Out-spread upon its sweating side!
Since the examination of experts before the recent "Lords' Committee" elicited more than twenty widely divergent definitions of this "Sweating System," some care is required at the outset of our inquiry.
That would be found to be the result, even if no account were taken of the greatest loss of all, the loss arising from the inefficiency of the sweated workers and of their children, for sweating is calculated to perpetuate inefficiency and degeneration. The question is: Can anything be done?
'Don't do it again, and I'll stand for the drinks. But I may as well confess that you fellows had me going south for a moment. Look at the way I've been sweating. "He sighed and wiped the sweat from his forehead as he started to step toward the bar. "'It is no joke, Kaluna said abruptly. I looked murder at him, and I felt murder, too. But I dared not speak or strike.
At first his entire time and energies were concentrated on his new job and learning an unaccustomed task; he spent hours on the wharves along the Strand, or across the river at Dallah, standing about in the glare, and dust and blazing sun, amongst struggling, sweating coolies and swinging cranes.
If it goes well, then I can do what I will. But if I've lost my strength and will these years between, then why, I don't know where to turn." Eagerly, impatiently, he hurried on, trembling with expectation, and sweating at the brow. "Maybe I'm taking it too seriously," he thought again. "But, no it is life or death to me, this. And I don't know yet what I can do it may go either way...."
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