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Updated: May 8, 2025
I have been thrown back by events, on a stage where I had never more thought to appear. It is but for a time, however, and as a day-laborer, free to withdraw, or be withdrawn at will.
A true gentleman is always unselfish, be he old or young, rested or weary; and such being the case, the foreign day-laborer, in blue blouse and hob-nailed boots, who rises and gives a lady his place in car or omnibus, is the superior of the several-times-a-millionaire, in finest broadcloth, spotless linen, patent leathers and silk hat, who sits still, taking refuge behind his newspaper, in which he is seemingly so deeply absorbed as to be blind to the fact that a woman, old enough to be his mother, stands near him.
Formerly he stood before the priest with level eyes, now he was shorter by an inch of the six feet that were once his. He noticed the hands the hands of the day-laborer. He managed to reply to Champney's last remark without betraying the emotion that threatened to master him. "Outwardly, yes; things have changed and will continue to change. The town is making vast strides towards citizenship.
"What is it I can do for you?" he asked. Eugene had been formulating his request in his mind some method of putting it briefly and simply. "I came up to see Mr. Wilson," he said, "to see if he would not send me out as a day-laborer of some kind in connection with some department of the road. I am an artist by profession and I am suffering from neurasthenia.
I could have told her that I was watching what was to me a perfect problem the kindly, gentle, pitying deeds of a woman, who had, I believed, murdered her own child. "I am not tired, Mrs. Fleming, I am interested," I said. The little cottage which stood in the midst of a wild patch of garden was inhabited by a day-laborer.
What I don't understand is why such people should be allowed to exist in this country." "We're a free people, Selma. I'm a good democrat, but you must agree that the day-laborer in his muddy garb would not find himself at ease in a Fifth Avenue drawing-room. On that account shall we abolish the drawing-room?" "We are not day-laborers." "Not precisely; but we have our spurs to win.
That the day-laborer, before abandoning his cow, lets it feed in contravention of the law, becomes a marauder, commits a thousand depredations, and is punished by fine and imprisonment: of what use to him are police and agricultural progress?
As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. If he only earned tenpence a day, that would at any rate find him something to eat.
You can marry a mechanic or a day-laborer, in that case, without loss of self-respect. I've only been talking to you on the plane where I've always understood you wished to be taken. But if you don't, then I can't help it. You must understand, though, and understand distinctly, that you can't live on two levels; the world won't let you.
But the poor day-laborer, whose only patrimony is the communal land and who supports a cow and several sheep in summer by letting them feed along the roads, through the underbrush, and over the stripped fields, will lose his sole and last resource. The landed proprietor, the purchaser or farmer of the communal lands, will alone thereafter sell, with his wheat and vegetables, milk and cheese.
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