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CHAPTER XIV
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Then they're sure of their work as long as they keep honest and don't break any of our rules; that's no slight thing, I can tell you.

Why, on the ordinary system a man may find himself and his family without food any week end.

Then there's a good school for the children; they pay threepence a week for each child.
Then there's the reading-room and library, and the lectures, and the recreation-grounds.

You just come over the place with me some day, and talk with the women, and see if they don't think they're well off.' Adela looked him in the face.
'And it is you they have to thank for all this ?' 'Well, I don't want any credit for it,' Mutimer replied, waving his hand.

'What would you think of me if I worked them like niggers and just enjoyed myself on the profits?
That's what the capitalists do.' 'I think you are doing more than most men would.


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