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Updated: July 16, 2025
The case of shop-assistants is most aggravated, for these excessive hours of labour are wholly waste time; a reduction of 25 or even of 50 per cent in the shopping-day, reasonably adjusted to the requirements of classes and localities, would cause no diminution in the quantity of sales effected, nor would it cause any appreciable inconvenience to the consuming public. Sanitary Conditions.
No; and as they passed, I heard just for a couple of seconds the subdued strains of that scaffold-song of many an Irishman before them 'God save Ireland' waft up to me. "Roughs, dockers, labourers, shop-assistants all kinds and conditions of men, even the lowest class in the city yet all exactly the same in the look of defiance which will haunt me to my dying day.
And the message He gives you this night is this: 'Men of Gwalia, march on and keep you tails up." From that hour Ben flourished. He broke his league with the shop-assistants. Those whom he had troubled lost courage and humbled themselves before their employers; but their employers would have none of them, man or woman, boy or girl. Vexation followed his prosperity.
To my pleased astonishment the crowd at midday was quite all that my staff could serve, several of the Hobbs brood being at school, and the luncheon was received with every sign of approval by the business persons who sat to it. Not only were there drapers, chemists, and shop-assistants, but solicitors and barristers, bankers and estate agents, and all quite eager with their praise of my fare.
Even though the railway runs through, they're quite lonely. The trains carry clerks and shop-assistants down from their work in London to their houses at New Roothing and Bestcliffe and Prittlebay at night; and they leave in the morning as soon as they've had breakfast. On Sundays they're too tired to do anything but sit on the cliff and listen to the band playing.
* In Paris nearly all clerks and shop-assistants receive monthly salaries, while most workmen are paid once a fortnight. Trans. Never before had it been so plainly manifest to Pierre that work was a necessity, that it healed and saved.
They were old men and young men and middle-aged men, mostly of the labouring class, dock labourers, draymen, factory hands, barmen; but some, neatly dressed, were of a station which was obviously superior, shop-assistants, clerks, and the like. Dr. Tyrell looked at these with suspicion.
There were three shop-assistants and two errand boys always employed. Though our part of the country had grown poorer, the landowners had gone away, and trade had got worse, yet the grocery stores flourished as before, every year with increasing prosperity; there were plenty of purchasers for their goods. They were awaiting Mitya with impatience in the shop.
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