the same thing in the Bottom. Ask anybody who
knows me if I'll work. I can pay the money back
all right. But, if I know you from what you did,
that's not the thing to talk about now.

"I want a chance," he drove a knotted fist into
a hardened palm; "I want a chance to bring out
what's in me and in my land. I want my own!
The place came to me clear, with a little money; but
I wasn't content with a crop of fodder. I improved
and experimented with the soil till I found out what
was in her. Now I know; but I can't plant a sapling,
I can't raise an apple, without binding myself
to the Cannons and Hollidews of the County for
life.

"I'd be their man, growing their fruit, paying
them their profits. They would stop at the fence,
behind their span of pacers, and watch me --
their slave -- sweating in the field or orchard."

"You seem to think," Gordon observed, "that
you ought to have some special favor, that what
grinds other men ought to miss you. Old Pompey
sold out many a better man, and grabbed richer
farms. And anyhow, if I was to money all that
Cannon and Valentine Simmons got hold of where
would I be? -- Here's two of you in one family, in
no time at all... If that got about I'd have five
hundred breaking the door in."

The animation died from Edgar Crandall's face;

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