The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 14
... labour and the misery . Why cannot your people have us without so much labour , and why are so many of you unhappy ? Why cannot they be all happy with us as you are , dear ? For hundreds and hundreds of years now the wheat every year ...
... labour and the misery . Why cannot your people have us without so much labour , and why are so many of you unhappy ? Why cannot they be all happy with us as you are , dear ? For hundreds and hundreds of years now the wheat every year ...
Page 15
... labour on like the reapers till their ears are full of the dust of age . That only makes us more sorrowful , and anxious that things should be different . I do not suppose we should think about them had we not been in man's hand so long ...
... labour on like the reapers till their ears are full of the dust of age . That only makes us more sorrowful , and anxious that things should be different . I do not suppose we should think about them had we not been in man's hand so long ...
Page 16
... labour in vain - you dare not leave it a minute . " If you left it a minute it would all be gone ; it does not mount up and make a store , so that all of you could sit by it and be happy . Directly you leave off you are hungry , and ...
... labour in vain - you dare not leave it a minute . " If you left it a minute it would all be gone ; it does not mount up and make a store , so that all of you could sit by it and be happy . Directly you leave off you are hungry , and ...
Page 27
... labour to another field of labour , and I walked slowly and did no visible work . My dress showed no stain , the weather had not battered it ; there was no rent , no rags and jags . At an hour when they were merely changing one place of ...
... labour to another field of labour , and I walked slowly and did no visible work . My dress showed no stain , the weather had not battered it ; there was no rent , no rags and jags . At an hour when they were merely changing one place of ...
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... labour ; they had worked from childhood , and could see no possible end to labour until limbs failed or life closed . Why should they be like this ? Why should I do nothing ? They were as good as I was , and they hated me . Their ...
... labour ; they had worked from childhood , and could see no possible end to labour until limbs failed or life closed . Why should they be like this ? Why should I do nothing ? They were as good as I was , and they hated me . Their ...
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