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"No need to talk about the young women," said Betty, hastily. George bowed submission. "I only mentioned them because they are rather necessary to the story. Anyway, by the time the company was settled Ancoats suddenly threw off his embarrassment, and, with some defiant looks at me, behaved himself, I imagine, much as he would have done without me.
Ancoats knows that I have exhausted every argument, every entreaty. Now let him tell my son" her voice grew firm, in spite of her look of anguish "that if he insists on surrendering himself to a life of sin I can bear him company no more. I shall leave his house, and go somewhere by myself, to pray for him."
The population of the district consists, therefore, chiefly of mill hands, and in the worst streets, of hand-weavers. The streets nearest the heart of the town are the oldest, and consequently the worst; they are, however, paved, and supplied with drains. Among them I include those nearest to and parallel with Oldham Road and Great Ancoats Street.
I left him just now prancing about Lucy's bed, and making an abominable noise. She told him to be quiet, whereupon he indignantly informed her that he was "a dwagon hunting wats." So I imagine he hasn't had "the wrong dinner" today. They both laughed. 'And you have been in Ancoats? 'Yes, said David, tossing back his black hair with an animated gesture, and thrusting his hands into his pockets.
The tale when told indeed proved to be a very ordinary affair, marked out perhaps a trifle from the ruck by the facts that there was another pretender in the field with whom Ancoats had already had one scene in public, and would probably have more; that Ancoats being Ancoats, something mad and conspicuous was to be expected, which would bring the matter inevitably to his mother's ears; and that Mrs.
George's Road and Ancoats Street, and is the one most often found in the other working-men's quarters of Manchester and its suburbs. In the last-mentioned broad district included under the name Ancoats, stand the largest mills of Manchester lining the canals, colossal six and seven-storied buildings towering with their slender chimneys far above the low cottages of the workers.
"Ancoats stood still, with his hands on his sides, and looked at those two. His expression was not amiable. 'Something hatching, he said to Tressady. I suppose Ancoats got his sneer from his actor-friends none of us could do it without practice. 'Shall we go and pull the chief out of that? But they didn't go. Ancoats turned sulky, and went into the house by himself."
But Ancoats had merely stared a moment out of his greenish eyes, had shaken his queer mane of hair, as an animal shakes off the hand that curbs it, had changed the subject at once, and departed. Tressady had seen very little of him since. And had not, in truth, taken it to heart. He had neither time nor mind to think about Ancoats.
Yet with Tressady he felt no difficulty in talking over these private affairs; and he did, in fact, report the whole story that same story with which Marcella had startled Betty Leven on the night in question: how Ancoats on this Sunday evening had decoyed this handsome, impressionable girl, to whom throughout the winter he had been paying decided and even ostentatious court, into a tete-a-tete had poured out to her frantic confessions of his attachment to the theatrical lady a woman he could never marry, whom his mother could never meet, but with whom, nevertheless, come what might, he was determined to live and die.
Suicide! Ancoats!" said Tressady, throwing back his head. "We rate him, apparently, much the same," said Maxwell, drily. "But it is not to be wondered at that the mother should be differently affected. She sent you" the speaker paused a moment "what seemed to me a touching message." Tressady bent forward. "'Tell him that I have no claim upon him that I am ashamed to ask this of him.
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