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It's all work, with no play and no proper pay, for Western competition now prevents all chance of decent profits. Little can be laid up for old age, except by the most painful economy and daily scrimping; and how can the children consent to stay on, starving body and soul? <i>That</i> explains the 3,318 abandoned farms in Maine at present. And the farmers' wives! what monotonous, treadmill lives!
"You can imagine there wasn't much time left for books. I think, when he first went there, he thought he was still going to write the great poem, the great play the great novel, that was to bring him fame and money. But he soon learned better. Hattie had little patience with his scribbling, and had less with the constant necessity of scrimping and economizing.
Keep your eyes open for him. The daughter was as obedient in listening to this counsel as she had been in regard to the others, for it fell in exactly with her own wishes; she was tired of being poor, of scrimping and saving and 'keeping up appearances. The innumerable young bank clerks and journalists and teachers and college students who fluttered about her burnt their moth-wings to no avail.
Every man who respects himself, and values the respect of others, will carry out the maxim in act doing honestly what he purposes to do putting the highest character into his work, scrimping nothing, but priding himself upon his integrity and conscientiousness.
This meant borrowing and scrimping for several years, a fact which had great bearing on the wife's illness later. They had three children, born the twelfth month, the third year, and the fourth year after marriage. After the first child the mother was very well, nursed the baby successfully, and the little family flourished.
"Yes," I found myself thinking, "this is what it all comes to: the 'subiti guadagni' of the new rich, made in large masses and seeking a swift and eager exploitation, and the slowly accumulated fortunes, put together from sparing and scrimping, from slaving and enslaving, in former times, and now in the stainless white hands of the second or third generation, they both meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation, and create a Horse Show."
We must remark, in passing, that since the reign of Madame de Godollo trays were passed round on the Sunday reception days, and that without scrimping; on the contrary, they were laden with ices, cakes, and syrups, from Taurade's, then the best confectioner. "Don't harass me!" cried Flavie. "I know very well what that foolish girl has in her mind; and your marriage will take place only too soon."
I'm tired of it all sick and tired of scrimping and worrying and wearing made-over dresses and being just shabby genteel. You've got to do something." Every word was a knife in his heart. But he could not be angry with her; he was thinking of her disappointment. "But, dear, I'm doing all I can. How can I " "You can get a position somewhere and at least have a steady income that would "
He never earns above four hundred dollars in a year, and as he has a wife and several young children, the closest scrimping is necessary to get him through to the end of the twelve months debtless. To such a man a funeral is a colossal financial disaster. While I was writing one of the preceding chapters, this man lost a little child.
"Because," he told her seriously, "scrimping, haggling and screwing have been the fashion for so long, the other thing rouses mean suspicions by its very novelty. It's too good to be true; that's all." "You mean people will suspect they'll think there's something " She stood before him, her hands fallen at her sides, her eyes downcast.
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