I want what I earn.

I don't want a gift with a curse on it.

Let her keep her fine things.

She and her kind are responsible for all the misery of the poor on the face of the earth." "Seems to me you're reasonin' in a circle, Nahum," Andrew said, good-humoredly.
"Look here, Andrew, if you're on the side of the rich, why don't you say so ?" cried Eva.
"He ain't," returned Fanny--"you know better, Eva Loud." "No, I ain't," declared Andrew.

"You all of you know I'm with the class I belong to; I ain't a toady to no rich folks; I don't think no more of 'em than you do, and I don't want any favors of 'em--all I want is pay for my honest work, and that's an even swap, and I ain't beholden, but I want to look at things fair and square.