I had still three pounds of my own, and when you just come from the country three pounds seems a great deal.
"When I had been in the shop three days I wanted to go away again.

A clerk in a shop has the lowest work to do of all the people.

It is much better to break stones; you have the blue sky above you, and only the stones to bend to.

I asked my master to let me go, and I offered to give him my two pounds, and the bag of mealies I had bought with the other pound; but he would not.
"I found out afterward he was only giving me half as much as he gave to the others--that was why.

I had fear when I looked at the other clerks that I would at last become like them.