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Laska walked beside her master, seeking permission to run forward and looking around.
To decide this she began working round in a circle, when her master's voice disturbed her.
One of her ears had turned back while she ran, she breathed heavily but cautiously, and yet more cautiously looked toward her master, turning her eyes rather than her head.
Dolly, however, knew that not even a milk pudding for the children's lunch comes of itself, and that therefore so complicated and splendid an organization must have needed some one's careful attention; and from the way Vronsky surveyed the table, gave a sign with his head to the butler, and asked her whether she would take fish-broth or soup, she concluded that it had all been done by, and depended on, the master's care.
The large house with the old family furniture; the old footmen by no means smart, rather shabby, but respectful – evidently former serfs who had remained with their master; the stout, good-natured wife, in a lace cap and Turkish shawl, caressing her pretty granddaughter (a daughter's daughter), the manly young son in the sixth form of the High School, who had just come home and who kissed his father's large hand in greeting; the impressive kindly words and gestures of the host – all this had yesterday awakened Levin's involuntary respect and sympathy.
They had – I mean, Vronsky had – an English trainer, a master in his own line, but a drunkard.
The Latin master, it seems, has been unjust to him.''Yes, I have seen the pictures and did not like them very much,' Levin said, returning to the subject she had started.
I shall have to tell your head master about it.'
It was his valet, who had come for the gloves his master had forgotten.
I have freed myself from deception and learnt to know my Master.
A hundred and six years of mining, the youngsters after the old ones, for the same master.
The young man avoided replying, too happy at present to have found this convict's labour and accepting the brutal rule of the worker by master worker.
The girl turned the tap, replying that the master would soon return.
"Ah! if that fellow was master things would soon go better."
He again felt hesitation, a discomfort which made him regret the freedom of the open road, the hunger beneath the sun, endured with the joy of being one's own master.
When the Montsou treaty was made, Honor, who had laid up savings to the amount of some fifty thousand francs, yielded tremblingly to his master's unshakable faith.
He desired no bond, either woman or friend; he would be master of his own life and those of others.
Why should the worker remain the slave of the master who pays him?
That servant in a white apron taken to the market of the neighbouring town in her master's carriage aroused indignation.
Already he imagined a scene of simple grandeur, his refusal of power, authority placed in the hands of the people, when it would be master.
He was speaking of the master, Bakunin the destroyer.
Chaval laughed roughly in the face of this master who told them his affairs so frankly.
The others lowered their faces, obstinate and incredulous, refusing to take into their heads the idea that a master did not gain millions out of his men.
He did not sit on a throne far away in an unknown sanctuary; he was not one of those shareholders who pay agents to skin the miner who has never seen them; he was a master, he risked something besides his money, he risked his intelligence, his health, his life.
Then, without mentioning to the master the rendezvous he had given to the Montsou men, he promised to calm his mates, and to persuade them to go down.
Besides, he refused to discuss such folly; he meant to be master in his own place.
In less than five minutes the whole pit belonged to them; they swarmed at every storey in the midst of furious gestures and cries, carried away by their victory over this master who resisted.
As they arrived at the Joiselle road a Vandame pike-man, who had joined the band for revenge on his master, impelled the men towards the right, shouting:"To Gaston-Marie!
It was no longer a master, it was a mate; and a certain respect held them back before this old workman.
Those people belonged to him; he felt that he was their master.
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