But privation and famine clung to them in such a way that both curses of Ezra were fulfilled in us: The one, being the curse already mentioned; the other one, being the general curse which alarms all schoolteachers that they will never become rich, lest they should cease from their labour."
Privation and famine remained so closely associated with them that both curses of Ezra manifested: one, previously noted; the other, the broader curse that warns teachers against riches and work cessation."