#186

To a man with his ingrained distaste for work in any shape the sight of those wage-slaves outside there in the outer office had, as he had told Mr Pett, been stimulating: but only because it filled him with a sort of spiritual uplift to think that he had not got to do that sort of thing. Consider them in the light of fellow-workers, and the spectacle ceased to stimulate and became nauseating.

#171

Mr Pett yapped with rapture. He was experiencing something of the emotion of the preacher at the camp meeting, who sees the sinner's bench fill up.

#170

Mr Pett is going to give me a job in his office. I am going to start at the bottom and work my way still farther down.

#168

This cave man whom she had married, under the impression that he was a gentle domestic pet, had taken all of the spirit out of her.

#159

He sidled in a circuitous manner toward a distant chair, and having lowered himself into it, kept perfectly still, pretending to be dead, like a opossum.