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So I say, "hooray for the strike," and let Thornton, and Slickson, and Hamper, and their set look to it! 'Thornton! said Margaret. 'Mr. Thornton of Marlborough Street? 'Aye! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him. 'He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? What sort of a master is he? 'Did yo' ever see a bulldog?
They were evidently talking of the turn-out, and suggesting what course had best be pursued. She heard Mr. Thornton say: 'That has been done. Then came a hurried murmur, in which two or three joined. 'All those arrangements have been made. Some doubts were implied, some difficulties named by Mr. Slickson, who took hold of Mr. Thornton's arm, the better to impress his words. Mr.
'No! not in look, I grant yo'. But let John Thornton get hold on a notion, and he'll stick to it like a bulldog; yo' might pull him away wi' a pitch-fork ere he'd leave go. He's worth fighting wi', is John Thornton. As for Slickson, I take it, some o' these days he'll wheedle his men back wi' fair promises; that they'll just get cheated out of as soon as they're in his power again.
'No! from the south of England Hampshire, I believe, was the cold, indifferent answer. Mrs. Slickson was catechising Fanny on the same subject. 'Who is that fine distinguished-looking girl? a sister of Mr. Horsfall's? 'Oh dear, no! That is Mr. Hale, her father, talking now to Mr. Stephens. He gives lessons; that is to say, he reads with young men.
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