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Forty to one he is a poor man, born to look upwards to his fellow-men and not to look down upon anybody but slaves. He goes, therefore, to the palace of some grandee, some top-sawyer of the Senatorian order. This great man, for all his greatness, has turned out even sooner than himself.
They immediately recognised Whiting, the top-sawyer at the pit, as was obvious by their imitating, as soon as he appeared, the motion of sawing, and pointing at the same time to him. They seemed rather struck with the thickness of his wrists; indeed, they took some interest in comparing their limbs with those of the party.
You should have taken a leaf out of his book, and have had your sports in a sheltered place like this. But you didn't think of it, you see; and he did, and that's where he's beat you." "He'll be top-sawyer soon of you two, and carry all afore him," added jocular Mr. Tubber. "No," said Henchard gloomily. "He won't be that, because he's shortly going to leave me."
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