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From the first week of my residence in X——I felt my occupation irksome. The thing itself—the work of copying and translating businessletters—was a dry and tedious task enough, but had that been all, I should long have borne with the nuisance; I am not of an impatient nature, and influenced by the double desire of getting my living and justifying to myself and others the resolution I had taken to become a tradesman, I should have endured in silence the rust and cramp of my best faculties; I should not have whispered, even inwardly, that I longed for liberty; I should have pent in every sigh by which my heart might have ventured to intimate its distress under the closeness, smoke, monotony and joyless tumult of Bigben Close, and its panting desire for freer and fresher scenes; I should have set up the image of Duty, the fetish of Perseverance, in my small bedroom at Mrs. King’s lodgings, and they two should have been my household gods, from which my darling, my cherished-in-secret, Imagination, the tender and the mighty, should never, either by softness or strength, have severed me. But this was not all; the antipathy which had sprung up between myself and my employer striking deeper root and spreading denser shade daily, excluded me from every glimpse of the sunshine of life; and I began to feel like a plant growing in humid darkness out of the slimy walls of a well.  \nAntipathy is the only word which can express the feeling Edward Crimsworth had for me—a feeling, in a great measure, involuntary, and which was liable to be excited by every, the most trifling movement, look, or word of mine. My southern accent annoyed him; the degree of education evinced in my language irritated him; my punctuality, industry, and accuracy, fixed his dislike, and gave it the high flavour  \n􀀱  \nCreatedfor Lit2Go [on the web atfcit.usf.edu](on the web atfcit.usf.edu)  \nand poignant relish of envy; he feared that I too should one day make a successful tradesman. Had I been in anything inferior to him, he would not have hated me so thoroughly, but I knew all that he knew, and, what was worse, he suspected that I kept the padlock of silence on mental wealth in which he was no sharer. If he could have once placed me in a ridiculous or mortifying position, he would have forgiven me much, but I was guarded by three faculties—Caution, Tact, Observation; and prowling and prying as was Edward’s malignity, it could never baffle the lynx-eyes of these, my natural sentinels. Day by day did his malice watch my tact, hoping it would sleep, and prepared to steal snake-like on its slumber; but tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.  \nI had received my first quarter’s wages, and was returning to my lodgings, possessed heart and soul with the pleasant feeling that the master who had paid me grudged every penny of that hard-earned pittance—(I had long ceased to regard Mr. Crimsworth as my brother—he was a hard, grinding master; he wished to be an inexorable tyrant: that was all) . Thoughts, not varied but strong, occupied my mind; two voices spoke within me; again and again they uttered the same monotonous phrases. One said: “William, your life is intolerable.” The other: “What can you do to alter it?” I walked fast, for it was a cold, frosty night in January; as I approached my lodgings, I turned from a general view of my affairs to the particular speculation as to whether my fire would be out; looking towards the window of my sitting-room, I saw no cheering red gleam.  \n“That slut of a servant has neglected it as usual,” said I,“and I shall see nothing but pale ashes if I go in; it is a fine starlight night—I will walk a little farther.”  \nIt WAS a fine night, and the streets were dry and even clean for X——; t","cbCaisF2WwwprW8V","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisF2WwwprW8V","pdf",169226,"English","# Chapter 4\n## William’s resentment and occupational dread\n## Edward Crimsworth’s antipathy\n## Wages, despair, and nocturnal wandering\n## Meeting Mr. Hunsden on the street","[{\"question\":\"Why does William feel his occupation is unbearable at the start of the chapter?\",\"answer\":\"He finds the work of copying and translating tedious and suffocating, and he also becomes excluded from ordinary life as his antipathy toward his employer deepens.\"},{\"question\":\"What does William believe explains Edward Crimsworth’s dislike of him?\",\"answer\":\"Crimsworth resents William’s competence and fears he may become a successful tradesman, suspecting William holds mental wealth he keeps hidden.\"},{\"question\":\"What triggers William’s mood when he receives his first quarter’s wages?\",\"answer\":\"He interprets the payment as evidence the master grudges every penny, deepening his sense of life’s intolerability.\"}]","The Professor - Chapter 4 - William’s Conflict With His Employer | PDF",1789423560,12]