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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE WOMAN AND THE COATS Mr. Davis looked about him with bloodshot eyes. His battered bowler was perched rakishly on the back of his head, and his hands were thrust deep into his trousers pockets. He did not seem to find the aspect of the room enlivening. His wife, standing at a small oblong deal table, was making a parcel of two black coats to which she had just been giving the finishing stitches. The man, the woman, the table, and the coats, practically represented the entire contents of the apartment. The fact appeared to cause Mr. Davis no slight dissatisfaction. His bearing, his looks, his voice, all betrayed it. ' I want some money, ' he observed. ' Then you'll have to want, ' returned his wife. ' Ain't you got none ?' ' No, nor shan't have, not till I've took these two coats in.' 1 Then what'll it be ?' 'You know very well what it'll be ? three- and-six ? one-and-nine apiece ? if there ain't no fines.' 1 And this is what they call the land of liberty, the 'ome of the free, where people slave and slave ? for one-and-nine.' Mr. Davis seemed conscious that the conclusion of his sentence was slightly impotent, and spat on the floor as if to signify his regret. ' 'Tain't much slaving you do, anyhow.' ' No, nor it ain't much I'm likely to do; I'm no servile wretch; I'm free-born.' ' Prefers to make your living off me, you do.' ' Well, and why not ? Ain't woman the inferior animal ? Didn't Nature mean it to be her pride to minister to man? Ain't it only the false veneer of a rotten civilization what's upset all that ? If I gives my talents for the good of the species, as I do do, as is well known I do do, ain't it only right that you should give me something m return, if it's only a crust and water ? Ain't that law and justice ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217433785 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217433782 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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