All their lives they've been working like brutes and living in poverty.

Although they have done more than their fair share of the work, they have never enjoyed anything like a fair share of the things they have helped to produce.

And yet, all their lives they have supported and defended the system that robbed them, and have resisted and ridiculed every proposal to alter it.

It's wrong to feel sorry for such people; they deserve to suffer.' After tea, as he watched his wife clearing away the tea things and rearranging the drying clothing by the fire, Owen for the first time noticed that she looked unusually ill.
'You don't look well tonight, Nora,' he said, crossing over to her and putting his arm around her.
'I don't feel well,' she replied, resting her head wearily against his shoulder.

'I've been very bad all day and I had to lie down nearly all the afternoon.