I used to be so done up by the end of the week that I used to stay in bed nearly all day on Sunday.' 'But don't you think it's worth while trying to find out whether it's possible to so arrange things that we may be able to live like civilized human beings without being alternately worked to death or starved ?' 'I don't see how we're goin' to alter things,' answered Easton.

'At the present time, from what I hear, work is scarce everywhere.

WE can't MAKE work, can we ?' 'Do you think, then, that the affairs of the world are something like the wind or the weather--altogether beyond our control?
And that if they're bad we can do nothing but just sit down and wait for them to get better ?' 'Well, I don't see 'ow we can odds it.

If the people wot's got the money won't spend it, the likes of me and you can't make 'em, can we ?' Owen looked curiously at Easton.
'I suppose you're about twenty-six now,' he said.

'That means that you have about another thirty years to live.