ten in the morning
I had nothing upon which to depend save my newspaper , which was obviously insufficient . At last , I succeeded in obtaining some clerical employment . For no other work was I fit , for my training had not been special in any one direction . My hours were long , from ten in the morning till seven in the evening , and as I was three miles distant from the office , I was really away from home for eleven hours every day , excepting on Sundays . I began to calculate that my life consisted of nothing but the brief spaces allowed to me for rest , and these brief spaces I could not enjoy because I dwelt upon their brevity . There was some excuse for me . Never could there be any duty incumbent upon man much more inhuman and devoid of interest than my own .