 ... was evidently in everybody's way but Lizzie's. It seemed to him that he had no longer any right to the food which he ate at his uncle's table, because if he had not of his own accord left Mr. Hilton's, he might have been earning plenty for himself....  No work, no wages: and other stories - Page 39by No work - 1861Full view - About this book
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...restored to his uncle's favour ; but it was not pleasant for him to feel that he had nothing to do, and was evidently in everybody's way but Lizzie's. It...his uncle would sometimes say that " he thought it quite as much a person's duty to get their own living as to shut up his shop once a week." But at length... | |
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...last to his apartment house he had remembered staggeringly that his lease upon it was surrendered. It seemed to him that he had no longer any right to enter his rooms, and he turned from them swiftly, and walked block after block until he reached the... | |
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