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Once on her feet, however, she lingered there a moment longer, saying that she also had just seen her sister, Madame Theodore, and little Celine, both of them comfortably clad and looking happy. And with a touch of jealousy she added: "Well, my husband contents himself with slaving away at his office every day.
Here I am slaving away for about seventy-five dollars per month, year in and year out. All I get is my food and clothing and yours, of course, which is as much necessary, but is more or less of a white man's burden. No sooner do I get a dollar in my hand than it has to be passed along to the butcher, baker, grocer, dressmaker, milliner.
He looked like the typical Brother Jonathan, only with a longer beard, and his face was haggard, unkempt, anxious. He could scarcely stop to converse, evidently grudged the time, devotes his entire energies from dawn to twilight to slaving for his eight hundred ducklings. He also kept an incubator going all the time. "Do ducks pay you?" I asked.
Oh, a precious lot you are! and a deal of thanks I get for my scrimping and slaving!" And she began scolding away. But she began, somewhat to Jurgen's astonishment, by stating that he was even worse than the Countess Dorothy.
"'That's what I reckoned it roughly, she answered. 'Talk about Romance! And me a slaving the way I had all the years, when as soon as I ventured out, inside three days, this was what happened. And what became of the men that mined all that gold? Often and often I wonder about it.
The young women were sold there for ivory: an ordinary-looking one brought two arrobas, sixty-four pounds weight, and an extra beauty brought twice that amount. The men and boys were kept as carriers, to take the ivory down from the interior to Tette, or were retained on farms on the Zambesi, ready for export if a slaver should call: of this last mode of slaving we were witnesses also.
"You find life pleasant?" "You do, I hope?" she answered, as they paced on. "Not unpleasant, at all events. I am no longer slaving under the iron gods. I like my work, and it promises to reward me." Eve made a remark about a flower-bed. Then her voice subdued again. "How do you look back on your great venture your attempt to make the most that could be made of a year in your life?"
By Chitanda, near one of the slave crossing-places, we were robbed for the first time in Africa, and learned by experience that these people, like more civilized nations, have expert thieves among them. It might be only a coincidence; but we never suffered from impudence, loss of property, or were endangered, unless among people familiar with slaving.
Yet these sins of omission were virtues of commission elsewhere; for if Bloomah's desk was vacant, it was only because Bloomah was slaving at something that her mother considered more important. 'The Beckenstein family first, the workshop second, and school nowhere, Bloomah might have retorted on her mother. At home she was the girl-of-all-work.
"Those are negroes just landed from a slave ship," said I, for in those days the Brazilians had no law against slaving.
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