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`` Not this , or any other morning , sir , '' Tom replied . `` You amaze me ! '' `` This construction work requires more personal attention , sir . I may have twenty minutes to dream , in the afternoon , but my mornings are mortgaged each day , from four o'clock on . '' An hour later Mr. Howe joined Reade and Hazelton in the field . Tom had already prodded three or four foremen , showing them how their gangs were losing time . `` If we get the road through on time , and save the charter , '' Tom called , on leaving each working party , `` every laborer and foreman is to have an extra week 's pay for his loyalty to us . ''