Well, that's my position, or was a few months ago.

I don't suppose any workman has had more advantages.

Take it as an example of the most we can hope for, and pray say what it amounts to! Just on the right side, just keeping afloat, just screwing out an hour here and there to work your brain when you ought to be taking wholesome recreation! That's nothing very grand, it seems to me.

Yet people will point to it and ask what there is to grumble at!' Adela sat uneasily under Mutimer's gaze; she kept her eyes down.
'And I'm not sure that I should always have got on as easily,' the speaker continued.

'Only a day or two before I heard of my relative's death, I'd just been dismissed from my employment; that was because they didn't like my opinions.