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"And because they can't use the niggers do they say that we-uns musn't use 'em nuther?" demanded Jeff, angrily. "That's it exactly," said Rodney. "They are dogs in the manger. They can't eat the hay themselves and they won't let the critters eat it." Although the wood-choppers didn't quite understand this, it was plain enough to the Barrington boy that they were impressed by his words.
And now this thing, which he regarded as being of all things in the world the most honourable, had come to him all at once, and was possibly within his reach! If he could believe Barrington Erle, he had only to lift up his hand, and he might be in Parliament within two months. And who was to be believed on such a subject if not Barrington Erle?
Dalton who will manage it all. What do you know of the Works?" "No, he will not, Mr. Barrington. The factory, of course, is his province, but the village shall be mine. You think, because I am not yet twenty-two, that I do not know my own mind, but you forget how long I have been motherless; and a girl has to think for herself when her mother goes." "But your father?" "You knew my father."
Most of the men were delighted with this speech, which was received with much laughing and knocking on the tables. They remarked to each other that Grinder was a smart man: he'd got the Socialists weighed up just about right to an ounce. Then, it was seen that Barrington was on his feet facing Grinder and a sudden, awe-filled silence fell.
To these old familiar names were now added others destined to equal, if not still wider fame Arthur Wellesley, member for Trim; Arthur O'Conor, member for Phillipstown; Jonah Barrington, member for Tuam; and Robert Stewart, one of the members for the County Down, then only in his twenty-second year, and, next to Lord Edward Fitzgerald, lately elected for Athy, the most extreme reformer among the new members.
The jail, in Great Barrington, was so little used in those days of sturdy virtue that it had become a mere shed, fit to hold nobody, and Jackson, after being locked into it, might have walked out whenever he felt disposed; but escape, he thought, would have been a confession of the wrongness of Tory principles, or of a fear to stand trial.
Moving a little, he looked steadily at Maud Barrington and her aunt, who sat close together. "Then," he said, very slowly, "it was borne in upon me that I could not persist in deceiving you. Courthorne, I fancied, could not return to trouble me, but the confidence that little by little you placed in me rendered it out of the question.
"If I withheld it?" "It would hurt me," said Winston. "Still, I would not be astonished, and I could not blame you." "But it would make no difference?" "Yes," said Winston gravely. "It would, but it would not cause me to desist. Nothing would do that, if Miss Barrington can overlook the past." The little white-haired lady smiled at him.
"And the groom's got no eyes for any one else. Gee! Don't her clothes fit, though?" "It's her figger fits," laughed the fat porter, with an unctuous chuckle. "Coffee sacks 'uld look well on her." Mr. Barrington soon put them on the right path for their legal quest, and before noon they were following a turnkey along a dim stone corridor, which led to the hospital cell where Lozcoski was confined.
But since I have been helping their masters to rob them, they have treated me with respect. Barrington made no reply and the other man, having returned the money to his pocket, indicated the crowd with a sweep of his hand. 'Look at them! he continued with a contemptuous laugh. 'Look at them! the people you are trying to make idealists of! Look at them!
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