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He wanted to hear arguments. He wanted to go into their homes and see their wives and find out what their wives thought.... All this had been brought to him by a few days in overalls. He had no idea that Lightener had intended it should be brought to him.... However, that must lie in the future; his present business was to do as he was told and to earn his wages.
Labor earns it for you.... If there's a man whose labor earns for him only a dollar and seventy-five cents a day, and that man pays it, he's doing as much at I am..." "Bonbright," said Malcolm Lightener, getting to his feet, "I'm damn disappointed in you." "Come in a year and tell me so, then I'll listen to you," said Bonbright. "This nonsense won't last a year. It won't pan out.
"It sort of weighed me down yet somehow I didn't get interested till after the whistle blew." Lightener grunted. "That's what interests most of 'em getting out of the place after the whistle blows." "Dad!" said Hilda. "What was it interested you then, Mr. Foote?"
Lightener's arms, but scant comfort in her words, yet they would remain with Ruth and she would find comfort in them later. Now she heard Malcolm Lightener speaking to her husband. "You be good to that little girl, young man," he said. "Be mighty patient and gentle with her." She waited for Bonbright's reply. "I love her," she heard Bonbright say in a low voice.
When Bonbright emerged from the bath he found the motherly woman had sent out to the haberdashers for fresh shirt, collar, and tie. He donned them with the first surge of genuine gratefulness he had ever known. Of course he had said thank you prettily, and had thought he felt thanks.... Now he knew he had not. "Guess you won't be afraid to face Hilda now," said Lightener, entering the room.
"If we need any help " Mr. Foote began. "Whether you need it or whether you want it," said Lightener, "you get it." "Let me point out to you," said Mr.
I wish more time to devote to a certain literary labor upon which I have been engaged..." "Literary flub-dub," said Lightener. "I'm offering you half a million a year on a silver platter." "I don't want it, sir.... I am not a young man. I have not been in the best of health owing, perhaps, to worries which I should not have been compelled to bear.... I am childless.
"I'm going to be married to-morrow " "What?" "I'm going to be married to-morrow and I've got to support my wife decently..." "It's that little Frazer girl who was crying all over my office to- day," said Lightener, deducing the main fact with characteristic shrewdness. "And your father wouldn't have it and threw you out...or did the thing that stands to him for throwing out?" "I got out.
We don't want to have any unpleasantness over this...." "We've got it already," said Hilda, "and the only way is to go the limit." Lightener slammed the desk with his fist. "Right!" he said. "If we meddle at all we've got to go the whole distance. Either stay out altogether or go in over our heads.... But how about this girl, Hilda, does she belong?" "She's decently educated.
"I calc'late she was," said Malcolm Lightener, "when you come to think of it.... Too bad all cranks can't put the backbone they use in flub dub to some decent use. I sort of admire 'em." "Father!" expostulated Mrs. Lightener. "You've got to. They back their game to the limit.... This little girl did.... Tough on Bonbright, though."
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