woman-laborer

Updated: May 15, 2025

And later, under the increasing stress of his adolescence, he used to have a dread of realities a conviction that he could not trust himself. He thought at this period not of legends, but of facts of things that truly happened; of the brutality of hayfields; of a man full of beer dealing roughly with a woman-laborer who unluckily came in his way alone and defenceless at nightfall.

W. B. Maxwell - The Devil's Garden