{"id":120,"date":"2016-04-18T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T06:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/odgeodge\/?p=120"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:39:31","slug":"i-felt-it-would-be-degrading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/odgeodge\/2016\/04\/18\/i-felt-it-would-be-degrading\/","title":{"rendered":"I felt it would be degrading"},"content":{"rendered":"

About two o’clock p.M. I entered the village. At the bottom of its one street there was a little shop with some cakes of bread in the window. I coveted a cake of bread. With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed. The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings. to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet. Had I nothing about me I could offer in exchange for one of these rolls? I considered. I had a small silk handkerchief tied round my throat; I had my gloves. I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. I did not know whether either of these articles would be accepted: probably they would not; but I must try mvp 3.0 pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I entered the shop: a woman was there. Seeing a respectably-dressed person, a lady as she supposed, she came forward with civility. How could she serve me? I was seized with shame: my tongue would not utter the request I had prepared. I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd. I only begged permission to sit down a moment, as I was tired.<\/p>\n

Disappointed in the expectation of a customer, she coolly acceded to my request. She pointed to a seat; I sank into it. I felt sorely urged to weep; but conscious how unseasonable such a manifestation would be, I restrained it. Soon I asked her ‘if there were any dressmaker or plain-workwoman in the village?’<\/p>\n

‘Yes; two or three. Quite as many as there was employment for.’<\/p>\n

I reflected. I was driven to the point now. I was brought face to face with Necessity. I stood in the position of one without a resource, without a friend, without a coin. I must do something. What? I must apply somewhere. Where hong kong service apartments<\/a>?<\/p>\n

‘Did she know of any place in the neighbourhood where a servant was wanted?’<\/p>\n

‘Nay; she couldn’t say.’<\/p>\n

‘What was the chief trade in this place? What did most of the people do?’<\/p>\n

‘Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver’s needle-factory, and at the foundry.’<\/p>\n

‘Did Mr. Oliver employ women?’<\/p>\n

‘Nay; it was men’s work.’<\/p>\n

‘And what do the women do?’<\/p>\n

‘I knawn’t,’ was the answer. ‘Some does one thing, and some another. poor folk mun get on as they can.’<\/p>\n

She seemed to be tired of my questions: and, indeed, what claim had I to importune her? A neighbour or two came in; my chair was evidently wanted. I took leave baby product<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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