You know that, don't you ?' 'Yes, that's true enough, mate.

We really ought to be very thankful: we ought to consider ourselves lucky to 'ave a inside job like this when there's such a lot of chaps walkin' about doin' nothing.' 'Yes,' said Owen: 'we're lucky! Although we're in a condition of abject, miserable poverty we must consider ourselves lucky that we're not actually starving.' Owen was painting the door; Easton was doing the skirting.

This work caused no noise, so they were able to converse without difficulty.
'Do you think it's right for us to tamely make up our minds to live for the rest of our lives under such conditions as that ?' 'No; certainly not,' replied Easton; 'but things are sure to get better presently.

Trade hasn't always been as bad as it is now.

Why, you can remember as well as I can a few years ago there was so much work that we was putting in fourteen and sixteen hours a day.