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I'm afraid your opinions won't entirely commend themselves to Miss Ironsyde." "Probably not. I quite realise that I shall have to exercise the virtue of patience at Bridport and Bridetown for a year or two. But while I've got you for a friend, Arthur, I'm not going to bother." Waldron marked the imperious changes and felt somewhat bewildered.
You used to understand me so well and know what was in my mind before I spoke, and now now before this the greatest thing in the world for me you " "Talk quietly, for goodness' sake. You don't want all Bridetown to hear us." "You can say that? And you go out walking with a child and "
Thus the relations subsisted, while, strange to record, in practice they had long been accepted as part of the order of things at Bridetown. They ceased even to form matter for gossip. For Raymond Ironsyde was greater here than the lord of the manor, or any other force. The Mill continued to be the heart of the village.
Drab or grey was their attire, but sun-bonnets nodded bright as butterflies among them, and even their dull raiment was more cheerful than the gathering company in black who now began to mass their numbers and crane their heads along the highway. Bridetown lies near the sea in a valley under a range of grassy downs.
I look to you and only you to help me run the show at Bridetown, henceforth. And, before everything, I want my people to be keen and feel my good is their good and their good is mine. Anyway, I have based changes on a fair calculation of future profits, plus necessary losses and need to make up wear and tear." "And remember, raw products tend to rise in price all the time."
"And when d'you weigh in?" queried his friend. "That's the point. That's why I invited myself to lunch. Daniel doesn't want me in the office at Bridport; he wants me here at Bridetown so that I can mess about in the works and see a lot of John Best, the foreman, and learn all the practical side of the business.
On a Saturday in August, Sarah Northover, one of those who minded the 'spreader' at Bridetown Mill, came to see her aunt the mistress of 'The Seven Stars, in Barrack Street, Bridport. She had walked three miles through the hot and dusty lanes and found the shady streets of Bridport cool by comparison, but there was work for her at 'The Seven Stars, and Mrs. Northover proved very busy.
The length of a reel of twine varies in different places and countries; but at Bridetown, a Dorset reel was always measured, and it represented twenty-one thousand, six hundred yards. Mercy Gale was chaining the warp off the reels in great massive coils which would presently depart to be polished and finished at Bridport. All its multiple forms sprang from the simple yarn.
"That's a great thought that nothing's impossible," declared Mr. Best. They argued, each according to his character and bent of mind, and, while the meliorists cheered each other, Mr. Baggs laughed at them and held their aspirations vain. Raymond Ironsyde came to Bridetown. He rode in from Bridport, and met John Best by appointment early on a March morning.
Raymond had the little back-parlour to himself and Richard Gurd waited upon him. They spoke of general subjects and then the older man became personal. "If you'll excuse me, Mister Raymond," he said, "if you'll excuse me, as one who's known you ever since you went out of knickers, sir, I'd venture to warn you as a good friend, against a lot that's being said in Bridetown and Bridport, too.
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