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Slaved like horses. Me and the two sons. And they had to do work of national importance. Disgraceful I call it in a free country." "I would be much obliged, zer, if you would take me on." "You left on your own accord, didn't you? I never take back a hand that leave on their own. Why don't you be patriotic and rejoin and finish up the Huns?"
When she happened to smile, he remained rooted to the floor, laughing with delight as he gazed at her. Sometimes she just dropped a hint that her mother, now deceased, had been a hard worker, and that she took after her. She worked, indeed, very assiduously. However, she sometimes added that the worthy woman had slaved herself to death in striving to support her family.
The six of them, and the breathless bonne who cooked and slaved for them all, had but a slim budget to live on; and, as Junie remarked, you'd have thought the boys ate their shoes, the way they vanished. They ate, certainly, a great deal else, and mostly of a nourishing and expensive kind.
Instead of drinking to absent friends he looked at the sub-factor and said: "How!" He drank to the subfactor. Jaspar Hume had a memory of childhood; of a house beside a swift-flowing river, where a gentle widowed mother braced her heart against misfortune and denied herself and slaved that her son might be educated.
Above all, I felt that she was unjust to me; and my good conscience, as well as my pride, rebelled. "You have never trusted me," I cried, "you have watched me " "Did you not deceive me once already?" "And if I did," I answered, more and more excited, "have I not slaved for you, stinted myself of clothes to pay your rent?
I hated her instantly with the most intense adoration that made me want to lie down at her feet, and also made me feel like I had gained all the more than twenty pounds that I have slaved off me and doubled them on again. I would have liked to lead her that minute into Doctor John's office and just to have looked at him and said one word "string-bean!"
I only know her as the sister of the girl that the Ivinghoes picked up." "She is the owner of a little property at Arnscombe, and has taken home her four young half-sisters to live with her, after having slaved for them as a governess till she came into this inheritance. She is an excellent person." "Ah! Was her house at Filsted?" "I am not sure. Yes, I think the young ones were at school there.
And they waited till at last an old hound passed by limping on three legs, half blind with scarcely any teeth. So they put the case to him. "Look at me," said he; "I have slaved for my master for ten years, and this very day he has kicked me out of his house because I am no use to him any longer, and he grudged me a few bones to eat. So far as I can see nobody acts from gratitude."
There was nothing but that river. To one little wooden factory and that rushing torrent of water I pinned my faith. Every cent I possessed in the world was in the venture. I must make good or go under. Nobody will ever know how I slaved in those early days. For years I worked day and night, never giving myself time to realize that I was tired.
Niggers were two-legged lesser creatures who toiled and slaved for their two-legged white lords, who lived in the labour barracks afar off, and who were so much lesser and lower that they must not dare come near the habitation of their lords. And nigger-chasing was adventure. Not long after he had learned to sprawl, Jerry had learned that. One took his chances.
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