caste-distinction

Updated: July 15, 2026

Hanley Black sneered to her husband at Ida Barton's feat. "Some vaudeville tank girl," was one of the similar remarks with which the women in the shade complacently reassured one another finding, by way of the weird mental processes of self-illusion, a great satisfaction in the money caste-distinction between one who worked for what she ate and themselves who did not work for what they ate.

Jack London - On the Makaloa Mat