Those people will find it out right away.
They will easily see that you have no backbone; that they can deal with you as they would deal with a slave.

You may last six months, but not longer.

Then they will not dismiss you as they would dismiss a gentleman: they will fling you out as they would fling out an intruding tramp." It happened just so.

Then he and his wife migrated to Keokuk once more.
Orion wrote from there that he was not resuming the law; that he thought that what his health needed was the open air, in some sort of outdoor occupation; that his father-in-law had a strip of ground on the river border a mile above Keokuk with some sort of a house on it, and his idea was to buy that place and start a chicken-farm and provide Keokuk with chickens and eggs, and perhaps butter--but I don't know whether you can raise butter on a chicken-farm or not.

He said the place could be had for three thousand dollars cash, and I sent the money.